I’ve been pretty happy with PHP for a long time now. Every once in a while I’ll find a good reason to explore another language, and just as I was getting the hang of Ruby on Rails, Google had to go and do this.
The Google App Engine (GAE) has very exciting potential, especially for developers like me who don’t have a big supply of extra cash they can throw at scaling hardware or bandwidth costs. Free 500MB of storage and 5 million pageviews a month? I’d be happy to pay for exceeding those pageviews.
Conspiracists will find some Big Brother-ly problems with GAE, but really, it’s a neat idea, and I’ll definitely be taking advantage of Google’s services. Unfortunately, it only supports the Python programming language, of which I have no experience. So, for the next few days, I’ll be dipping my foot in the Python pool, and waiting for my invite to the GAE.
April 9th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
I’ve heard that they are supporting Python only, just at first. I think they plan on supporting other languages like PHP and Ruby. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.