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Python in the Cloud: Google App Engine

DateMonday, April 7, 2008 at 11:03PM

Hmm.. Google launched a new cloud-ish web development infrastructure platform called Google App Engine.  Tech Crunch has an article.  I wish this were Ruby based frankly or no language at all.  I think AWS has it right: virtualization, restful APIs, and platform agnostic tech overall.  This may drive Python adoption though, not that Python is bad.  Ruby's just better ;)

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From the article you linked to: "Google says that Python is just the first supported language, and that the entire infrastructure is designed to be language neutral. Google’s initial focus on Python makes sense because they use Python internally as their scripting language".

Besides, Python is a fine language that can do everything that Ruby can do, only faster and more readably.

<ducks and covers>

April 8, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterDave Kirby

I think Google chose python because python/django are faster and much easier to scale than other languages.

That and its their in house language. So far Google have done alright using python for their stuff.

April 10, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterHone

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