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Google App Engine: Please add Javascript

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http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=35... says it all:

Well said, I've been biting my tongue for ages on this particular thread. I would definitely encourage anyone who is thinking about commenting on this post to at least read back through the comments, see comment 46 for instance regarding appenginejs (http://www.appenginejs.org) and from my own investigation's I can confirm that ringojs (http://ringojs.org/) offers some great support for AppEngine right now:

https://github.com/ringo/ringojs/tree/master/apps/appengine

I'll write a blog post on how to make it all work at some stage, but it really isn't that hard.

Please stop commenting on this thread which is "please add Javascript" when really what you want is node.js and a V8 runtime. Scalable server side Javascript on AppEngine is available now, so get out and try it

This "bug" shows how annoying it must be for any poor Google engineer involved with a project with public bug tracking.

The request is "Please add Javascript". Responses range from people pointing out that you can put Javascript in the HTML output by AppEngine (!), to those pointing out the various ports of Rhino to AppEngine.

People use the bug tracking as a general discussion forum, and add nothing useful to it at all.

The public Android bug tracker on Google Code is far worse. I was looking at the issue for the SMS recipient problems, and it thousands of comments ranging from "this needs to be fixed" (even though the issue status is already marked "Critical") to ASCII art of the Android robot...

ringojs works on GAE: http://ringojs.org/wiki/Google_App_Engine/

please add ruby first :) http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=29

You can use jRuby - http://code.google.com/p/appengine-jruby/

ya I know. the biggest problem seems to be C based gems

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