[bArray]

> Would have save 90% of that person's time it it's on a sperate branch and we only need to focus on security patches. (NO, there is no such concept of branching in Google's dev system).

I wonder if this is why you have so many different programming languages being used under the hood at Google? Essentially people using a programming language as a branch. If you're working on a completely different language in theory you could shelter your team's product?

[throwaway3699]

I'm not sure if agree. Almost everything major is written in Java or C++ still. And I'll disagree that the issue is with libraries at all. It's with other services changing out from underneath you.