Expecting Rain

It isn't a surprise to me that at this writing Ruby is the number 1 user requested feature on the Google App Engine Feature/Issue tracker.

Whether or not Ruby has the largest user base for this type of environment or just the loudest is hard to determine. I've starred the Ruby feature as well as the Erlang request, which isn't doing very well. As I mentioned earlier (felt like that was a play on words with Erlang) I expect Ruby to be one of the first if not the first language brought on. As well, I just don't think that Erlang for the reasons using their processes will be brought into the stack.

If Erlang is made available, I can only think it will be a very stripped down version that lacks most of what make Erlang relevant to me. I don't have a problem with this as the theory is that App Engine is handling what I would have to code for in Erlang anyway.

If you feel passionately about a particular language or feature for App Engine, head over to the issue tracker and make your vote known. There is no guarantee that these issues will be granted by Google, but I can't help but think that they will be seriously considered if enough people are voting for them.