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2009–2021

The Google Developer Platform has evolved to provide robust tools and infrastructure for building and deploying complex applications. Early efforts focused on foundational APIs and outreach. Subsequent developments included advancements in distributed training on Cloud TPUs using Ray, enabling elastic training with MaxText, Pathways, and Orbax, and integrating high-performance AI inference directly into workflows. The Google APIs Client Library for PHP (Beta) was released, providing developers with tools for interacting with Google services. The introduction of alternate runtimes for Google Workspace Add-ons allows for more flexible and powerful add-on development, moving beyond the limitations of the Apps Script runtime.

2021

Evolving Google Workspace Add-ons with Alternate Runtimes- Google Developers Blog

3/22/2021

This post introduces the concept of alternate runtimes for Google Workspace Add-ons, allowing developers to build add-ons using languages and environments beyond Apps Script. It details the technical considerations and benefits of this evolution, including improved performance, access to native libraries, and greater flexibility in development. The post highlights the technical shift from a single, constrained runtime to a more open and powerful ecosystem for Workspace Add-ons.

2009

Bespin: an experiment in giving developers a productive and fun environment on the Open Web- Google Developers Blog

5/11/2009

This post introduces Bespin, an experiment in creating a productive and fun development environment on the Open Web. It highlights Bespin's capabilities in rich text editing, code completion, and its potential for web-based IDEs.