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michaelfairley on July 26, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rob Pike frustrated by Java, C++ complexity

A lot of the JavaScript at Google is written in Java and then compiled down to JS with GWT[1].

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Web_Toolkit

pkulak on July 26, 2010 [–]

@frog: They use it entirely for Wave. That's it though.

And I really don't think that they use JS on the backend for GMail. I figured it was Python or Java.

moxiemk1 on July 26, 2010 | [–]

Perhaps they're using node?

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