I question the point of doing this. There are already loads of programming languages out there, why add yet another one to the mix? What is the benefit? Seriously I am a fan of Google but it seems like they keep trying to reinvent the wheel instead of helping make the existing wheels better.
For instance, they could contribute to Ubuntu or some Linux distro and pump money to improve the UI and apps (basically make it like OSX but free, since OSX is essentially the only mainstream Linux-like operating system out there); instead, they say "We're making our own operating system!".
They could contribute to Python or Ruby or one of the dozens of other great languages out there and make it better, instead they say "We're making our own programming language!"
They could have done like Amazon EC2 and offered a customizable cloud stack that could be used for any language, but instead they made it pretty much proprietary.
It seems Google has delusions of grandeur and thinks that they can do X better than anybody else, instead of taking Y and making it more like their vision of X.
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