Re:Python for Android
by druiid on Thursday August 08, 2013 @11:12AM
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I've always wondered this as well. I mean, Google loves Python as evidenced by App Engine, how many of their internal/external tools use Python and other projects I'm forgetting. Basically I would have at least expected it as a built-in option to use (kind of like how Windows Phone 8 has a higher-level and lower-level way of accessing the phone).
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App Engine has, if anything, better support for Java than Python.
Can you give some examples of how that is the case? I don't know of any App Engine Services available on Java not available on Python (or vice-versa). They seem to be equally supported.
It's Go & PHP that are in "Experimental" mode. (per https://developers.google.com/appengine/)
I might be remembering incorrectly, but wasn't the launch option for App Engine their home-grown version of web.py?
They started with Python and their own webapp framework; Java support came years later.
We will never know.
I guess because Python is not statically typed. Most of the efforts they have been supporting (golang, dartlang...) are evidence of they prefer to have Static type-checking around.
Re:Python for Android
by chris_mahan on Thursday August 08, 2013 @03:33PM
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I think personally that it might have to do with sandboxing python, so third-party apps could be run safely, stopped, restarted, etc.