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This is a huge announcement, although I am surprised that it is not designed to support anything other than Python. This hindrance might keep more people using

This is a huge announcement, although I am surprised that it is not designed to support anything other than Python. This hindrance might keep more people using AWS than they might realize.

bootload 19y ago
"... although I am surprised that it is not designed to support anything other than Python ..." Why? The Google "big 3 language" choices are Cpp, Java & python ~ http://panela.blog-city.com/python_at_google_greg_stein__sdforum.htm http://panela.blog-city.com/python_at_google_greg_stein__sdf... You may see perl or other languages but the "big 3" are the officially supported ones. "... python ... but it will be a non-starter for many developers. ..." I find that an interesting statement. Why say that? Python is a pretty easy language to learn & use.
- jsjenkins168 19y ago
  Its a great language and easy to learn and use, but it might greatly limit their business relative to AWS. I polled HN about a month ago to see what percentages of HN readers used what languages for web development, and while Python was the most common, its still only used by 22% of those polled. Take this data with a grain of salt, but still an interesting statistic: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pxT7jIffmj3lGdXFcn9hKZw http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pxT7jIffmj3lGdXFcn9hK...
- greendestiny 19y ago
  It's not even the choice of python that's a limiting factor, its that you don't have a full server, just a language sandbox. Still it might be a great place to start a web application.
laktek 19y ago
This may be the move for Python to overtake Ruby in web app industry..This seems even more revolutionary than what RoR did before 3 years ago.. pyRuby anyone :p ??
utnick 19y ago
i agree, what could possibly be the technical reason for only supporting python?
- johnrob 19y ago
  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).
- sant0sk1 19y ago
  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.
- enomar 19y ago
  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...
adamhowell 19y ago
I wonder if this -- coupled with Django going 1.0 soon -- will create even more buzz for Django?
- bootload 19y ago
  "... I wonder if this -- coupled with Django going 1.0 soon -- will create even more buzz for Django? ..." Prophetic suggestion ~ http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/django.html http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/django.html & http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=157648 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=157648

This is a huge announcement, although I am surprised that it is not designed to support anything other than Python. This hindrance might keep more people using AWS than they might realize.

bootload 19y ago

"... although I am surprised that it is not designed to support anything other than Python ..." Why? The Google "big 3 language" choices are Cpp, Java & python ~ http://panela.blog-city.com/python_at_google_greg_stein__sdforum.htm http://panela.blog-city.com/python_at_google_greg_stein__sdf... You may see perl or other languages but the "big 3" are the officially supported ones. "... python ... but it will be a non-starter for many developers. ..." I find that an interesting statement. Why say that? Python is a pretty easy language to learn & use.

jsjenkins168 19y ago
Its a great language and easy to learn and use, but it might greatly limit their business relative to AWS. I polled HN about a month ago to see what percentages of HN readers used what languages for web development, and while Python was the most common, its still only used by 22% of those polled. Take this data with a grain of salt, but still an interesting statistic: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pxT7jIffmj3lGdXFcn9hKZw http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pxT7jIffmj3lGdXFcn9hK...
greendestiny 19y ago
It's not even the choice of python that's a limiting factor, its that you don't have a full server, just a language sandbox. Still it might be a great place to start a web application.

laktek 19y ago

This may be the move for Python to overtake Ruby in web app industry..This seems even more revolutionary than what RoR did before 3 years ago.. pyRuby anyone :p ??

utnick 19y ago

i agree, what could possibly be the technical reason for only supporting python?

johnrob 19y ago
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).
sant0sk1 19y ago
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.
enomar 19y ago
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...

adamhowell 19y ago

I wonder if this -- coupled with Django going 1.0 soon -- will create even more buzz for Django?

bootload 19y ago
"... I wonder if this -- coupled with Django going 1.0 soon -- will create even more buzz for Django? ..." Prophetic suggestion ~ http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/django.html http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/django.html & http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=157648 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=157648