FAANG stocks refer to a group of big tech stocks , that are traditionally made of Facebook (meta platforms) amazon,apple , Netflix and google these tech stocks were named FAANG because they have a long record of outperformance and dominate their respective markets

Microsoft is not part of FAANG stocks , which is there no M in the acronym, FAANG stocks were described hot new tech companies of the 2010 , whereas Microsoft was a mature older company

Many FAANG companies use C++ for their projects , SCALA is the new language that has gain popularity in recent years, it is used for big data processing, machine learning and web development

The FAANG term was popularised by Jim Cramer the television host of cnbc mad money in 2013, who praised these companies to be totally dominant in the market