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people working on appengine really want java? Isn't write webapps in java unproductive? I would figure developers would rather have ruby,php instead.
And besides, there are many people with investments in Java already. I think this is a pretty good choice.
Now, if they also added Mono (.NET) that would be great.
people working on appengine really want java? Isn't write webapps in java unproductive? I would figure developers would rather have ruby,php instead.
Java is orders of magnitude easier to scale.
people working on appengine really want java? Isn't write webapps in java unproductive? I would figure developers would rather have ruby,php instead.
JRuby is in good shape, you can deploy Rails on it. And besides, there are many people with investments in Java already. I think this is a pretty good choice. Now, if they also added Mono (.NET) that would be great.
Hmm I'd like to see JRuby running on app engine. Who else would?
I wonder if it will run all Java bytecode. Scala and Clojure would be great. Plus PHP (via Quercus) would convert a lot of developers. Edit: looks like it should! http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/runtime.html App Engine runs your Java web application using a Java 6 JVM in a safe "sandboxed" environemnt. App Engine invokes your app's servlet classes to handle requests and prepare responses in this environmen…
people working on appengine really want java? Isn't write webapps in java unproductive? I would figure developers would rather have ruby,php instead.
Try writing a high throughput webapp in ruby or php, then come back. Java is orders of magnitude easier to scale.
Promo page isn't loading for me - Does that mean I missed out?
I went back to the front page console and there was a link at the top of the page.
people working on appengine really want java? Isn't write webapps in java unproductive? I would figure developers would rather have ruby,php instead.
The parent post is neither a troll, spam, or off-topic, and thus should not be downvoted.
A simple "no upvote" would suffice. If you disagree add a substantive rebuttal to your "no upvote".
people working on appengine really want java? Isn't write webapps in java unproductive? I would figure developers would rather have ruby,php instead.
HN etiquette note: The parent post is neither a troll, spam, or off-topic, and thus should not be downvoted. A simple "no upvote" would suffice. If you disagree add a substantive rebuttal to your "no upvote".
However both of us are certainly off-topic and should be downvoted heavily :-)