11 Apr 08 Google App Engine – When will programmers learn that a language is just a tool?

Google has launched a very cool application server, it is called Google App Engine.

Kudos to google again

But this application server started a big war on the internet, lots and lots of developers around the world, are very sad because the only supported language in the application server is Python.

Google App Engine has free accounts with limitations, like heroku for example, which is a great application server that supports only Ruby On Rails.

So, what is the problem?

The big problem is that because App Engine is from Google, most of the developers that haven’t not learned Python yet are yelling around because Google App Engine does not support their language.

But the real problem here is that these developers do not understand that a programming language is only a tool you need for work.

Most of the money I get every month is from Java programming, but I have to use many other languages, like Ruby, Bash, ActionScript/Flex, Java, C++, Object Pascal/Delphi, …

<opinion>
If you think yourself as a developer and you can write programs using only one language, you is probably a very bad developer.
</opinion>

I think this bunch of “why did you choose python instead of my beloved Java/Ruby/Perl” is just because it is from google, and everyone wants some google love.

Why no one yells about Heroku supporting only Ruby On Rails? Not even the Merb programmers …

But if google created Heroku (almost it did now), every one would complain about the chosen language.

I liked the idea of Google App Engine, probably this was the push I needed to learn Python (I never liked it, and never had any good reason for that, I just do not want the idea of spaces defining code blocks ), the only boring thing is all this yelling about the supported language.

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Tags: google, python