Accidental Angel writes "Google recently launched a preview release of App Engine, an environment for building web applications using Google's infrastructure. Currently Python is the only server-side language supported, though they have stated that they look forward to supporting more languages. To that end, I've added an issue requesting Perl support to the GAE issue tracker. To vote for this support, click the 'star' icon on the issue tracker web page."
Re:It's not
systems on 2008-04-10T08:59:24
Well, it's not about making Perl more popular, it's about using the language and modules you already known or care to learn more about.
I am sure Python is good enough, for GAE, Google engineers, I am sure, are smart and made a good choice.
But I would still rather use the language where I made the most investement.Re:It's not
Accidental Angel on 2008-04-10T14:54:13
Actually, it sort of is a popularity contest. See this post on the App Engine group, where a Google rep asks people to star the appropriate issue in their tracker rather that post in the group.
I would not have added the issue nor asked people here to star it if Google hadn't said that was the appropriate means of feedback.Re:It's not
vek on 2008-04-10T16:12:58
Please enter your feedback on the next language/framework to implement on our issue tracker. If there's already one for the language you want, star it, don't duplicate it.And lo, we star it. Perl advocacy and all that. The popular implementation requests stand a better chance of, well, implementation I would think.
-sam
Re: "add Perl" in 4th
Aristotle on 2008-04-13T23:14:03
Same ranking sequence as of this writing, with votes at 992, 786, 667 and 612, respectively.
