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Ruby isn't an approved language at Google, I haven't heard it being talked about almost at all.

Python gets some dislike, and there are a few significant projects trying to get off it. As a blanket statement I don't think dynamic languages work well at a company like Google.

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> As a blanket statement I don't think dynamic languages work well at a company like Google.

Looks like AWS is echoing that sentiment:

     Performance. Rust is blazingly fast and memory-efficient: with no runtime or garbage collector, it can power performance-critical services

Author here—while many systems are performance-sensitive, many others aren't. Personally, I don't enjoy writing Python at work due to its lack of misuse resistance more than any concerns about performance (although a large-enough project will eventually care about performance _at some point_), but I have little issue writing smaller Python programs that only _I_ maintain.

Google has plenty of python.

Ruby even excluded from GSoC while python isn't.

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