Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App Engine

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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