Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App Engine

Re:Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App... by jsjenkins168 on Monday April 07, 2008 @10:36PM (#157444)

This is a huge announcement, although I am surprised that it is not designed to support anything other than Python. This hindrance might keep more people using AWS than they might realize.

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Re:Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App... by bootload on Monday April 07, 2008 @11:01PM (#157471)

"... although I am surprised that it is not designed to support anything other than Python ..."

Why? The Google "big 3 language" choices are Cpp, Java & python ~ http://panela.blog-city.com/python_at_google_greg_stein__sdf... You may see perl or other languages but the "big 3" are the officially supported ones.

"... python ... but it will be a non-starter for many developers. ..."

I find that an interesting statement. Why say that? Python is a pretty easy language to learn & use.

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Re:Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App... by jsjenkins168 on Monday April 07, 2008 @11:27PM (#157501)

Its a great language and easy to learn and use, but it might greatly limit their business relative to AWS.

I polled HN about a month ago to see what percentages of HN readers used what languages for web development, and while Python was the most common, its still only used by 22% of those polled. Take this data with a grain of salt, but still an interesting statistic:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pxT7jIffmj3lGdXFcn9hK...

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Re:Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App... by greendestiny on Monday April 07, 2008 @11:49PM (#157514)

It's not even the choice of python that's a limiting factor, its that you don't have a full server, just a language sandbox. Still it might be a great place to start a web application.

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Re:Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App... by adamhowell on Monday April 07, 2008 @10:54PM (#157458)

I wonder if this -- coupled with Django going 1.0 soon -- will create even more buzz for Django?

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Re:Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App... by bootload on Tuesday April 08, 2008 @02:36AM (#157651)

"... I wonder if this -- coupled with Django going 1.0 soon -- will create even more buzz for Django? ..."

Prophetic suggestion ~ http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/django.html & http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=157648

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Re:Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App... by utnick on Monday April 07, 2008 @10:46PM (#157454)

i agree, what could possibly be the technical reason for only supporting python?

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Re:Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App... by johnrob on Monday April 07, 2008 @11:01PM (#157473)

I would assume that google built a sandbox (probably like appjet), for python. It's not trivial to build a sandbox for a language, and it's certainly not trivial to build multiple all at once - which is why they are only launching with one (python).

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Re:Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App... by enomar on Tuesday April 08, 2008 @01:34AM (#157604)

Read the first post. They had to harden Python to allow third party code to run on their network. Other languages (once hardened) are coming...

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Re:Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App... by sant0sk1 on Monday April 07, 2008 @10:47PM (#157456)

one thing I know is that Google loves python, so its a natural choice to start with. No doubt they'll be adding support for other languages as time allows.

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Re:Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App... by laktek on Monday April 07, 2008 @11:51PM (#157517)

This may be the move for Python to overtake Ruby in web app industry..This seems even more revolutionary than what RoR did before 3 years ago..

pyRuby anyone :p ??

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