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		kibwen on Sept 27, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chrome OS KVM - A component written in Rust Offtopic, but I've always been a bit confused by the notion of "officially sanctioned" at Google... famously it's "Java, C++, Python, Go", but I've never heard anyone mention Javascript, which they obviously must use... or TypeScript (via Angular), or Dart (AdWords and Fuchsia), or C (Google does tons of Linux work), or ObjC/Swift (all their iOS apps). And these are only for projects we know about (if there's no Perl code running somewhere at Google, I'll eat my hat). So what does the officially-sanctioned language list determine?

pjmlp on Sept 27, 2017 [–]

I would say any language on the official Google style guide web site.

https://google.github.io/styleguide/

All the languages you mention are there.

MrBuddyCasino on Sept 27, 2017 | [–]

Theres Common Lisp in there! When did that happen?

pmarin on Sept 27, 2017 | | [–]

When they bougth ITA Software.

MrBuddyCasino on Sept 27, 2017 | | [–]

Ah right. Forgot ITA.

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