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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.


The word "Java" is misleading; it's really the JVM, which means most of the mainstream web programming languages, in their JVM versions.


people working on appengine really want java?

After more than 8 years of coding in Java, I had to pick up Python (and Django) so as to start using GAE for my startup.

Now, looking at those sample code in Java (and JSP) and the related XML configurations for GAE, I don't think I want to go back to Java - unless I am paid to do so, say for services.


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How do you define troll? A blanket statement labelling an entire technology with a pejorative without any justification or explanation seems fairly trollish to me.

However both of us are certainly off-topic and should be downvoted heavily :-)


Try writing a high throughput webapp in ruby or php, then come back.

Java is orders of magnitude easier to scale.


Languages don't scale.


Fortunately Java is not a language but a runtime + library + language. And it scales great :-)


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.


Google adding support for Microsoft tools?




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