[coldtea]

>Researchers working at a company are often thinking about solving company problems, even if their particular solution doesn't have management support yet

Yes.

But it's another thing to have a company's the management, say "we want a team to create a language to solve programming at our scale" and throw full resources and money at it (at C#/Java/V8/Swift scale) and have it adopted by mandate for further development,

(as is often implied),

and another thing to have an independent group of a few devs at a company to sit on their own, and say "you know what would be interesting to try to build? A language to handle what we see as Google scale problems", and then getting some more resources, and seeing some at the company adopting it, as just one more language used along with several other company-approved languages for greenfield stuff...

[skybrian]

Uh, Google is unlikely to standardize on a single language. The codebase is too big, the incumbent languages are too well entrenched, and they've heavily invested in supporting multiple languages. I'm not sure anyone claimed that either?

If anything the trend is towards slowly adding acceptable languages, but the bar is pretty high.