These are the programming languages Google uses

Manpreet Singh
4 min readApr 13, 2021

Welcome back! When discovering which programming languages to learn, it maybe best to work backwards and find out which languages the top tech companies are using right now. Let’s take a look at Google and which programming languages they actually use!

First off

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The Languages

Let me go ahead and just tell you exactly what the languages are without wasting your time, i’ll explain them later. The languages that Google uses in house are: Javascript & Typescript for their front end, their backend is a little bit more complex: C, C++, Java, Python and Node. How do I know Google uses these languages? They’re on Wikipedia:

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