... and I agree with you. But the approach we are taking towards the Python 2.7 runtime is something that could theoretically be genericized for other runtimes.
There are different levels of engagement with external developers we can have if there is enough interest. For instance, if a very solid group of developers was passionate about bringing a PHP runtime to App Engine and demonstrated: a. A willingness to roll up their sleeves and slug through some of the hard work b. The project was more than a throwaway project. That is - there is long term viability. ... we'd look at some of the various ways we could lower the communication barrier between their team and ours. Given our lack of PHP interpreter experience on our team, this would, for all practical purposes, be the only way for a real PHP runtime to exist on App Engine. We probably wouldn't maintain it, but we'd work closely with the folks that do. I'm asking this question because there are some benefits to engaging with PHP/Mono experts early to see if this is something that is economically viable or even possible. The core of our engineering work will be on polishing the product and just really hardening what we have right now. Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine Blog: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/app_engine Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 3:11 AM, JH <[email protected]> wrote: > These questions scare me. I'd hate to think that GAE's limited > resources would even consider implementing any more languages now. > I'd personally rather see some of the kinks worked out, along with > some new features for the existing languages. Just my 2 cents. > > On Jun 17, 9:09 am, "Ikai Lan (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I just read this. The other day I was looking at a Python vs PHP > comparison, > > and it turns out 5.3 has added a lot of the missing features that I used > to > > complain about all the time when I worked in PHP4/PHP5-land: > > > > http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonVsPhp > > > > Not saying that I personally prefer PHP - I don't. As a general rule I > > prefer existing Python web frameworks to the ones available for PHP. > > > > Do you guys think that supporting a PHP runtime would actually be a "game > > changer"? > > > > As far as .NET goes - does anyone here have experience running a > production > > web service on Mono? How did it go? > > > > Pretty much just asking for the sake of asking; don't interpret this as > us > > planning for these language runtimes. > > > > Ikai Lan > > Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine > > Blog:http://googleappengine.blogspot.com > > Twitter:http://twitter.com/app_engine > > Reddit:http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
