At the top of Snoot Mountain sit the lofty Search engineers writing in C++, which is considered cooler than Java, which is cooler than Python, which is cooler than JavaScript. And Search is cooler than Ads, which is cooler than Apps, which is cooler than Tools, which is cooler than Frontends. And so on. Programmers love to look down on each other. And if you ’ re unlucky enough to be a Google mobile engineer, you ’ re stuck scuffling around at the bottom of several totem poles with everyone looking down on you.---https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/who-will-steal-android-from-google-af3622b6252e