Re:Python 3 is now available on App Engine standard environment
by reaperhulk on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @01:26PM
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Very few people were demanding Python 3 support 10 years ago. Prior to 3.4 uptake was limited so we’re really talking about 4 years.
Also, old appengine was built with nacl (remember that?) sandboxing. Anything that couldn’t be built under the nacl sandbox couldn’t run in app engine. Google realized this was a problem long ago but it takes time to rebuild your whole platform to eliminate such a fundamental dependency. That may have taken most of their focus, leaving little for other projects. and of course their new arch makes python 3 free so it’s difficult to have a parallel engineering effort that will be rapidly deprecated.
Also, old appengine was built with nacl (remember that?) sandboxing. Anything that couldn’t be built under the nacl sandbox couldn’t run in app engine. Google realized this was a problem long ago but it takes time to rebuild your whole platform to eliminate such a fundamental dependency. That may have taken most of their focus, leaving little for other projects. and of course their new arch makes python 3 free so it’s difficult to have a parallel engineering effort that will be rapidly deprecated.