[mangodrunk]

Thanks for adding more context.

You do seem to be making assumptions and having expectations on how the team and how Google should operate. Regarding Java, I don't find the claims that Java isn't as good as Go compelling. For you, sure, but to make general claims is silly. There are many successful companies and productive developers using Java.

There are probably companies that are very productive in how you would want to pick and choose languages based on the problem. IMO, the language choice is not all that important, though I do think PHP, JavaScript, and similarly poorly designed languages are probably a hinderance (but again there are many successful companies using these like you said, so I think that's convincing that the language doesn't really matter all that much).