Google app engine perl language support

[Vytautas D]

On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 7:10 AM, Nicholas Clark <nick at ccl4.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 11:29:46AM -0800, ๏̯͡๏ Guido Barosio wrote:
> > Meh :/
> >
> > https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=34
>
> Is anyone actually using Google App Engine for new projects?
>
>
I used to 2-3 years ago, but not anymore.


> Unlike Compute Engine, it doesn't have Microsoft and Amazon undercutting
> it on
> price twice an hour*
>
> And it's stuck on Python 2, despite Google (seemingly) being partly a
> Python
> shop:
>
> https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=909
>
> (I'm wondering when Google will show their hand on that ticket.
> Was the Perl request ticket the only one they closed, or are they having a
> cleanup?)
>
>
They closed C# at the same time (
https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8 ). It's
interesting that they closed Perl, but not Ruby, even though Perl had more
stars/votes... My guess is that they might try to get JRuby next to the
others, or try to get PHP and Go into stable.


> Nicholas Clark
>
> * possible exaggeration
>