Do everything in Java…

Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Dec 4 07:04:43 PST 2014


On Thursday, 4 December 2014 at 14:40:10 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 4 December 2014 at 14:25:52 UTC, Paulo  Pinto 
> wrote:
>> I rather pay for just one instance.
>
> That depends. What makes Go and Python attractive on AppEngine 
> is the fast spin up time, you only pay for 15 minutes, and it 
> scales up to 100 instances transparently. With java you need 
> multiple idle instances 24/7 because the spin up is slow.
>
>> Honestly, I could never see an use for Python outside shell 
>> scripting.
>
> Not having static typing is a weakness, but not as bad as I 
> thought it would be when you learn how to deal with it.
>
> Dropbox likes Python enough to develop a JIT for it according 
> to this blog:
>
> https://tech.dropbox.com/2014/04/introducing-pyston-an-upcoming-jit-based-python-implementation/
>
> So I'd say it all depends.

PyPy has now 10 year of research spent into it, and it still 
doesn't support all Python features.

I am aware of Dropbox efforts. Lets see if they go Unladen 
Swallow direction or not.


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