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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