Tapir, thanks for your feedback. I agree that there have been several
cases where features have come out in Python long before Java. (There
have been a few in the other direction too, but not as many.) This is
something we are trying to improve upon in the future.
I'm happy to tell you that one of
I would also point out that it is possible for Java apps to migrate from
Master/Slave to High Replication:
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/datastoreadmin.html#Copying_Entities_to_Another_Application
Having to create an empty Python version of your app is no doubt clunky and
not
+1
The primary benefit of GAE comes from the services (datastore, task
queue, memcache, etc) and the language is pretty much secondary.
Don't be afraid to set up the Python SDK - it's *really* trivial
(especially compared to setting up Eclipse). You don't even need to
learn any Python. Chances a