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Looks interesting! I feel that an improved C is what's mostly lacking in the programming language landscape nowadays.

So now Google's got its own OS (two actually), browser, and now its own programming language. Anything missing yet? Their own editor / IDE?

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They actually maintain at least four browser codebases: Chrome, Android's Webkit, Picasa (uses Gecko), and their server-side renderer.

They have at least three product OSes: ChromeOS, Android, and The Google Search Appliances.

This is at least their second new programming language project: there's also Rob Pike's Sawzall. They have numerous in-house implementations of existing programming languages: V8, Closure, GWT, Dalvik, Unladen Swallow, plus all the extant ones they maintain forks of.

May I ask you? What do you mean by improved C language? Safe pointers? I think this is the biggest advantage of C.. Of course, it can(and occasionally it will) become a trouble at some point, but you won't get that much flexibility and portability in any other language. Not trying to say that this is a bad idea to create a new language or anything, but I just don't see how this language will make my life better..

P.S. No offense, but it's amazing how some people are such Google fans.

Bram Moolenaar (vim) is a Googler.

...and has his own experimental C language replacement: http://www.zimbu.org/

It's like several people got the same idea... http://ooc-lang.org/ is also an improved C really.

Their own editor/IDE?

I wouldn't imagine this as something that they'd release.

Oh, you never know. They release a lot of the not-business-specific infrastructure they improve, which an editor undoubtedly is.

I'd argue their secret sauce, and the parts they wouldn't want to release, are - the insane scaling stuff - all the intelligent things they do with the insane amount of data they have, and the insane rate at which they can process it

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