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Well it was a bit off the top but hey your excited, cool I will look forward to your article or any info you share on your experience.I do see the fabric of the PHP nucleus going south though. A lot of big developers and contributors are pulling projects etc from the PHP community and moving towards Python. PHP has such a huge base now it's never going to disappear but the times are a changing. I myself have been looking and playing with a bit of python as of late But I will say this I still wouldn't put it on Google's site, I use a lot of Google's tools but I don't trust Google as far as I can throw them. I have an unsettling feeling about putting any of my code on there server for any reason. For those that don't have the money to get a host I can see where this service might be beneficial.
The reason i responded to your post like that is quite simple actually. A. that is exactly what it sounded like, a PR for google. B.You are assuming those of use here have not tried python or even looked into it. C This site is aimed at beginners and those looking to further what they have learned,and to share it, PHP is easy to learn, flexible with the majority of free host's and is embedded in the web server,which does not require additional software to get up and running, not to say python is not a more flexible language, PHP is just easier for the beginner D. I have to agree with Code,I would not trust google farther then i could throw there smallest employee,they have a tendency to have a almost ludicrous TOS with all of there operations *cough* adsense*cough* Granted again agreeing with code, a lot of there tools do come in handy, analytic's for example is awesome for keeping track of traffic.Am really not trying to discourage you from posting your experience with GAP, by all means please do, would love to see how it works out for you. But given as said above, it sounded like a very well worded PR pitch,your open admission to have posted it on other boards, and lack of anything other then what we could have simply discovered ourselves reading the Faq. Again I really don't mean to discourage you by any means, I myself was looking at python for awhile as a first language to learn, but simply put PHP for me is just easier to read and setup out of the box.
Ive taken a look today at the google app engine....interesting, particular their datastore and how they handle transactions.and the other eyebrow raiser for me was no joins !!!!still it does come with a large number of benifits, especially to the start-up, or someone with unknow pick-up. I think i may have to consider it for a non-game project that im also working on.
Here's the pricing that they expect to use: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2008/05/announcing-open-signups-expected.htmlThere's also a python script somewhere that can convert your database from GAE format to mysql and back again. Not sure how effective it is, but it seems to work.
here is an interesting blog i just stumbled over relating to game development on GAE....havent read it all yet but it seems the author had to abandon the attempt after running into a number of GAE limitations..http://codecrafter.wordpress.com/category/game-development/should make for some interesting reading.
But I will say this I still wouldn't put it on Google's site, I use a lot of Google's tools but I don't trust Google as far as I can throw them. I have an unsettling feeling about putting any of my code on there server for any reason. For those that don't have the money to get a host I can see where this service might be beneficial.
Just to let you all know, I am developing a facebook app using GAE for hosting. Also, with the support for JVM now, you can use JVM to implement PHP: http://www.caucho.com/resin-3.0/quercus/ as well as other languages, as Scion said.
