Comments on: Google Application Engine Launches http://www.shipsbiscuit.com/2008/04/08/google-application-engine-launches/ Flipping the digital landscape to portrait. Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:46:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Bhavic http://www.shipsbiscuit.com/2008/04/08/google-application-engine-launches/#comment-74 Bhavic Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:18:35 +0000 http://www.shipsbiscuit.com/2008/04/08/google-application-engine-launches/#comment-74 I'm tired of launches that are limited betas. Only 10000 developers will get a first kick. They say that they "look forward to supporting more languages in the future" - I won't bet on Ruby though. Maybe Erlang.. :P` The main benefit here is largely that it's free, but it isn't particularly flexible (yet?) which makes it mostly useless for most devs. You can't simply port apps to it, you'll have to develop specifically for their platform. I guess that's not going to be too horrible if you're a python dev but it isn't even simple in that case. I’m tired of launches that are limited betas. Only 10000 developers will get a first kick.

They say that they “look forward to supporting more languages in the future” - I won’t bet on Ruby though. Maybe Erlang.. :P`

The main benefit here is largely that it’s free, but it isn’t particularly flexible (yet?) which makes it mostly useless for most devs. You can’t simply port apps to it, you’ll have to develop specifically for their platform. I guess that’s not going to be too horrible if you’re a python dev but it isn’t even simple in that case.

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