Thanks for the link, I just added a little excerpt from my post to the list.
I think the fact that so many other devs are coming to the same conclusion independently speaks of how favourable a JavaScript for GAE solution is. I'm sure if Google released a poll to gauge public interest about it, you would get an positive response from the dev community. Here's hoping for some positive steps in exploring the idea. - Demis On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Robert Kluin <[email protected]>wrote: > I think it would be interesting too. Star issue 35. > http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=35 > > > Just please do not post a "+1" or "me too" type comment, a star is > sufficient. > > > Robert > > > > > On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 14:56, Demis Bellot <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hey All, > > Love what you guys have created with Google App Engine although > > I'm surprised that you haven't offered JavaScript as a target language > yet. > > It's a ubiquitous language known by most web developers and is one of the > > primary languages engrained into Google's DNA as you already provide a > great > > runtime for it in V8. The success of node.js/expressjs should prove that > it > > is a viable server platform with a willing community. > > The way I see it a V8-powered JavaScript hits a sweet spot: I imagine it > > would be faster to run than Python (my major gripe against it) and more > > terse, expressive and functional than Java (my major dislike). As most > gae > > apps are websites, JavaScript also reduces the impedance language > miss-match > > as it will allow you to use the one language for both client and server. > I > > would imagine that the per-request model of gae would also be better > suited > > for JavaScript as opposed to the high start-up cost and long-running > nature > > of Java. > > What do you guys think? I'm sure it's not the first time this has been > > suggested, as it seems like a natural choice. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google App Engine" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<google-appengine%[email protected]> > . > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-appengine%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
