Why Apple and Google Made Their Own Programming Languages

Gamoid writes: This Business Insider article looks into the state of Google Go and Apple Swift, highlighting what the two languages have in common — and why tech companies would bother involving themselves in the programming language holy wars. From the article: "One fringe benefit for Google and Apple is that making your own programming language makes recruitment easier — for instance, since it builds a lot of its own server applications in Go, Google is more likely to hire a developer who's already proficient in the language since she would need less training."

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Subtle..

[koan]

Google is more likely to hire a developer who's already proficient in the language since she would need less training."

*eye ball roll*

Re:Subtle..

[gbjbaanb]

because the same reason we say "mankind" and mean girls too.

In old English the gender-neutral pronoun is 'man; (as opposed to wer for males, and wif for females) but as wer fell out of usage, man was used to refer to males and neutral.

The only reason its getting changed now is by the politically correct crowd who basically want to knock down the established systems for their own benefit, as if we replace writing that says "he did this"with "she did this" they definitively exclude males from that sentence. They say this is OK as it rebalances the gender oppression of centuries (sigh) but really just serves to promote themselves and their ideology.

Re:Multiplatform is king - and Go is multiplatform

[Anonymous Coward]

How someone can learn go in under a week but take over 2 years to learn C++ is beyond me, but I assume it has something to do with dynamically redefining your definition of "learn" as you switch between discussing the two.