Google App Engine Languages?
June 28, 2008I was idly browsing through the abbreviated digest for the Google App Engine group when I came across a post with a subject that seemed mildly offensive to me:
“Please don’t add support for other languages“
I’ve been thinking a lot about localization, and as a result I completely misunderstood. I thought this was some kind of petition to stick with English only. (Yes, that wouldn’t make any sense would it?)
So, I was actually getting a little hot under the collar, you know, like this…
(xkcd is great isn’t it?)
But, thankfully, I had completely misunderstood. What was really going on was a little cheer-fest for a blog post by Jonathan Feinberg at IBM, encouraging Google to just stick with Python for the Google App Engine libraries for now, and get those really “right” rather than put resources into translating the libraries into PHP, Java, and all those other things…
I just figured I’d add my three cheers to Jonathan’s post… how about it Google, let’s get a really functional stack first and more languages second?
