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Thanks again slurgfest. I appreciate the way that App Engine does thing. What I ment to say, sorry it wasn't clear, is that by exposing a generic api to various services memcache, datastore, etc. App Engine could make it easier to add additional runtimes. And now that I think about it - I'm sure they are doing this to an extent.

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Sorry that I keep running off in the wrong direction.

They control the runtime in a very heavy-handed, opaque way to lock it down and I doubt that would ever change. New runtimes will be 100% up to Google to implement and they seem not to be a high priority in general - Java seems to be favored for the enterprise people and Go and Python have had involvement from the respective language creators... Google has only so many major language creators ;)

Just part of how App Engine is a closed platform really (although it's not like all of Heroku is open either)

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