Will Google AppEngine Support Javascript?

Does anyone know or have an opinion on whether AppEngine will add javascript as a supported language/framework and in what timeframe?

Solution 1:

See this: http://helma.org/wiki/Helma+NG/Running%20Rhino%20and%20Helma%20NG%20on%20Google%20App%20Engine/

Because Java now supports JavaScript as part of its standard runtime, you can do all sorts of cool stuff.

Solution 2:

I spoke to the Google team at Google I/O and native JavaScript on the server side is not on their near-term roadmap.

Solution 3:

Given that JavaScript is rarely used as a server-side language, that seems very unlikely to me. It's not like doing so would add a lot of potential users.

(Disclaimer: I work for Google, but nothing I write here should be taken as Google's stance on things, and I don't know anything about the AppEngine team's plans :)

EDIT: To answer Pointy's point, I think there's a big difference between JavaScript being supported and it being something you can get working if you try hard enough via Rhino and Java. Put it this way: if some obscure change to the Java support made life better for most Java users but broke a bit of JavaScript via Rhino, I'd expect that to have a relatively low priority for the team.

Solution 4:

Update (alerted by the down vote):

Well, things have changed. Recently, Google released/improved Google Apps Script which allows you to script the cloud using JavaScript.

I'm glad to be proven wrong.

Cheers.

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My old answer for your reference is no longer applicable:

You might want to check out:

http://www.appenginejs.org/

I believe the short answer to direct JavaScript support by Google Apps Engine would be no.

Solution 5:

Appengine now supports Node.js using the flexible environment. It's taken a while, but see https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/ for info.