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Google has announced a new version of Google App Engine – the "developer cloud" that lets you build applications atop the company's famously distributed infrastructure – offering an "experimental" runtime for its Go programming language. The brainchild of three big-name Google engineers –  Unix founding father Ken Thompson, …

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  1. sladec

    PHP ?

    They should have added PHP !

    1. Charlie Clark Silver badge
      Flame

      Why?

      They only add stuff that they use and can support and App Engine is as much about testing scale and virtualisation as it is about turning a buck. PHP isn't in use in Mountain View so they have no idea how to scale it across their servers.

      Still, no need to cry, you can still run your Neanderthal code on Amazon and Azure. ;-)

      1. Affian
        Joke

        PHP

        But PHP is ubiquitous and can help a new generation of script kiddies emerge from the spawning vats.

        Personally I have nothing against PHP, I think that like any other language that the code is only as good as the programmer.

    2. Kevin Bailey

      Just switch...

      ...to Python - it's easy enough!

  2. Peter Murphy
    Happy

    I gather you can run PHP on Google Apps.

    Indirectly. Get a Querus (a PHP interpreter written in Java) onto Google Apps, and run your PHP apps on top of that.

    See: http://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2009/run-php-on-the-google-app-engine/ and http://brian.brispace.net/2009/04/09/php-on-google-app-engine/

    I have not tried it myself - I'm more a Python/Django kind of guy - but I hope these links are of assistance.

  3. Anonymous Coward
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    I think it has a lot of potential

    If you look at http://golang.org/ the Go language certainly doesn't look as unpleasant as "Python-C++ crossbreed" would suggest!

    The FAQs explain various design decisions and, I would say, make a pretty good case for most of them.

  4. xeniar
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    "developer cloud" ?? not really

    Calling Google App Engine is a "developer cloud" implies that you can actually develop on it, which is incorrect. With 'build' they dont mean develop but they mean the packaging of source code for efficient execution. Most people get confused and ask about this, until they discover that Azure is just a hosting platform. The only currently available commercial developer cloud is Cloud9 IDE, they just showed their private beta preview of its support for the proposed W3C client-side file-system standard employed in recent versions of Google Chrome, and full integration with the Google App Engine.integration with Google App Engine. It's the first cloud-based Integrated Development environment for web and mobile apps.

    The new Cloud 9 IDE facility also provides Chrome OS support, making Cloud9 IDE the only way to create applications on Google’s CR-48, both on and off the cloud.

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/graphics/icons/comment/alert_32.png

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