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I want to write a web service that would check some web page HTML code every 20 minutes and e-mail it to my mail box. Here I was given a suggestion to use Google App Engine for this task. Having briefly read through that site I learned that two languages could be used there: Java and Python.
Which one do you think would fit best for my task and, therefore, I would have to start learning? (I don’t know either language).
I’ve tried both languages with GAE and here’s my general feeling about the choice of language for it:
Python is generally simpler. So, if you’re using bare GAE API, Python’s one is simpler to learn and simpler to write a webapp in it.
Java is more compatible. Python’s API is generally GAE-specific, while Java API resembles some standard Java technologies (servlets, JDO, deployment etc.)
So, Java is a good choice if you either have an experience with web development in Java or if you’re going to use third-party libraries extensively. Otherwise, Python is better.