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Comment by win311fwg

> Yeah but they were so that intentionally trying to build a better C++/Java

They were trying to build a faster Python, thinking that would appeal to C++ developers. The theory was that developers were using C++ at Google because they had to, not because they wanted to, and would choose something like Python instead if it were up to the performance task. Although it turned out in the end that C++ developers actually wanted to use C++.

parent win311fwg 3 months ago

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