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On Google App Engine, Google's cloud computing platform, developers can officially choose between two languages -- Python and Java -- and both run on the Java V
by andreyf 16y ago
On Google App Engine, Google's cloud computing platform, developers can officially choose between two languages -- Python and Java -- and both run on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).
If they've got Python running on the JVM, why aren't they contributing back to Jython (or releasing their own Python->JVM bytecode compiler)?
- rbanffy 16y agoThis is rather unexpected. AFAIK, the Python they have there did not run on top of JVMs.
- dustingetz 16y agoarticle implication (GAE's python support is actually Jython) is incorrect http://jython.xhaus.com/jython-on-google-appengine-why-bother/ http://jython.xhaus.com/jython-on-google-appengine-why-bothe...
- sgk284 16y agoWhere are you getting that quote from? They don't run Python on the JVM.
- csytan 16y agoI think the article has been changed after andreyf quoted it.