I saw the new blog post here promoting Go for "high performance" apps on App Engine http://blog.golang.org/go-and-google-cloud-platform
I remember reading about Go with considerable interest when it was announced. The controversial and particularly unique elements of Go's design were justified with the explanation that Go was designed for building massive systems. In particular a number of design concessions were made such that massive code base could be built quickly. I don't mean to put Go down - I wasn't building massive systems so I didn't pursue the language and know nothing of it beyond its high level design justification. For all I know it is a great language. My point in making this post is that I hope Google will, with time, also support C-based languages for web serving on GAE, rather than requiring the vast number of us who already know them so well to learn a new language that was designed for such a different purpose. I will add that I'm currently using GAE/J to back an Android app, and the ability to share code between client and server is terrific, so I think there is a lot of value in adding new GAE runtimes that correspond to client technologies. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
