Google App Engine
This is very cool. And Python-based, to boot, with a strong Django flavour to it. Needless to say, I wasn’t quick enough to get a beta testing account. I’m on the waiting list, like countless others, no doubt…
This is very cool. And Python-based, to boot, with a strong Django flavour to it. Needless to say, I wasn’t quick enough to get a beta testing account. I’m on the waiting list, like countless others, no doubt…
April 17th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
[…] Responses to the announcement of the Google App Engine have been mixed, from Tim Bray’s somewhat negative Sharecropping, to an awful lot of “very cool“s, with Niall Kennedy’s tech description providing a reasonably neutral common ground. I’ve been meaning to post about it, but I’ve a couple of pressing deadlines and haven’t had time. I didn’t think “Python - great! But this thing really isn’t forward-looking” would be doing it justice. However this morning I ran across a couple of blog posts on which I felt obliged to comment, and I just realised that most of my main points about the Google App Engine leaked out into those comments. So with apologies in lieu of better treatment, here goes - […]