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I think a large part of this has to do with programming language choice. I suspect there is a large group of ruby hackers out there who can only use Amazon, an
by noahc 16y ago
I think a large part of this has to do with programming language choice. I suspect there is a large group of ruby hackers out there who can only use Amazon, and not GAE.
- simonw 16y agoA survey of language choice by YC companies would be interesting - I think Python is actually very well represented. I'd guess that the reason people aren't using AppEngine is more that it's strategically a pretty bad idea. You can't move off it, and its constraints have a major effect on how you design and architect your application. When you're still figuring out what your product is, using a platform that requires you to design your data storage to fit the queries you are going to run isn't necessarily that smart.
- aelsheshai 16y agoI second that. Wouldn't be hard to add the languages.
- robryan 16y agoWasn't data access very slow up until recently? From the outside I question how important GAE is to Google, has it got a decent sized team behind it and will it always be around. With Amazon cloud hosting seems much more of a key business. Of course this is from the outside if I were considering options, I don't use either of them.
- illumen 16y agounless exit.goal == google.buy(self)
- naner 16y agoHeroku seems like a better analog to AppEngine for Rubyists than Amazon's services.