Hey, don't group me in together with the downvoted guy here. I agree that Google have their own reasons to pick their own tech.

I'm just saying that Erlang was probably a better solution than C++ for some of the things they were doing, and they could have switched to it years and years ago. They might then have created Go, and switch from Erlang to Go for those same projects. There'd be nothing wrong with that. I'm just surprised they were using C++ of all things to begin with, before rewriting in Go.