[kyllo]

I actually think Google picked the winner by deciding to use Python, especially for TensorFlow, right at the time when deep learning really started taking off, and also at a time when they were seen as the leader in engineering best practices that other companies wanted to emulate.

[JAlexoid]

Google followed the writing on the wall, nothing else.

Google was known as one of the most academic engineering companies, in the 00-ies.