This post popped up on my feeds and after clicking it I thought I would share my opinion here. What I have to say is more an extension of myself than a comment could do for me.
The authors main argument is that people who want to program in Ruby over Python with the Google Apps Engine are ungrateful.
First things first, +1 is fricking annoying, agreed. The people should press the star button and not comment unless they have anything decent to say
But as for the matter of wanting Ruby in Google Apps is not unfair. I have coded Python but my Ruby-fu is far far stronger. I could create wonderful things with the tools I have.
Learning another language to use a tool is a crippled philosophy. If you downloaded software to write plugins and it was a vastly different language, it could be a deal breaker for you, right? Why should it be any less? Google are getting traffic and a bunch of other goodies out of locking you into their domain.
I agree. His complaint seems to be (centered around the idea) that “if it is free, you should just settle for what they offer”.
I see this as a great competitive offering to counter Amazon’s Elastic Service. I am anxious for the day we can deploy Ruby [on Rails] apps in Google Apps.
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I’d say that Google never said that it will be Python only, just for the time being.
And another thing is that they actually could make it Python-only if they wanted, after all it is their product.
Heroku is Rails only and I see no one complaining.
And I am a Rails guy. The internet is about choice, so I choose not to give a damn about App Engine, and we’re all good.