As a follow-up, Ludovic Champenois () posted at the end of May[1] that Google will deploy Java 8 for GAE when they feel the sandbox is secure enough; he reiterates this in a recent presentation at Devoxx 2015 in Belgium[2]. In the presentation he describes how GAE can deliver apps based on a microservices architecture. The general impression I get is that GAE isn't dying and that Google at least still consider it relevant.

[1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/8y80sEhr7Rc/66WnFoBvL3AJ

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKUlu9-psZo

On 23 November 2015 at 17:36, John Pallister <john@synchromesh.com> wrote:

App Engine works for me as a one-man band because I'm comfortable with the constraints and I like the "zero admin" aspect and the array of services available. In the medium term it might go away; the fact that Google seem reluctant to move it to Java 8 suggests that it isn't exactly strategic for them. I'd be interested to know how many others might use ABCL+Clack on GAE, but if that number is zero it wouldn't bother me. :)

On 22 November 2015 at 13:57, Alessio Stalla <alessiostalla@gmail.com> wrote:
Is GAE still relevant today? I'm curious. Getting Portofino to run on GAE was a bit painful and in the end nobody expressed interest in it.

On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 10:12 PM, Anton Vodonosov <avodonosov@yandex.ru> wrote:

21.11.2015, 13:19, "Mark Evenson" <evenson@panix.com>:
> On 2015/11/20 23:24, Anton Vodonosov wrote:
>> John, don't forget to publish your results when you have clack working with ABCL
>
> Note that Clack *does* currently seem to work with ABCL, at least [the
> simple test on the clack home page][1].

Ah, yes, I meant to say "clack working with GAE + ABCL"