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Yeah, the app configuration file (
app.yaml) as a ``runtime'' field to specify what environment the scripts are to run in. It says that right now only Python is supported, but they
might add more languages in the future.
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/configuringanapp.html
Despite being
THE FORCED INDENTATION OF THE CODE, it sounds really fucking cool. I remember I once considered using Python for web shit, but there used to be the problems of
1. All of the Python web frameworks were bloated, disgustingly designed pieces of shit.
2. Very few web hosts supported Python, except as a fucking slow ass FastCGI module.
The API that Google is providing works both with the normal Web2.0 bloated POS standard stuff (Django, CherryPy, etc), in addition to working perfectly fine with the much cleaner
cgi module.
And they're going to host it on their own servers, presumably at the cost of forced advertising and GPL (or similar) licenses. I'm sure that you'll be able to purchase an unrestricted thing from them later, but I don't expect them to give away the whole barn for free.