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Hey does anyone know why Google Cloud Endpoints for Go-lang isn't in the standard environment on Google App Engine? It's only seemed to be officially supported/documented for Python / Java.

Is it because

A) Cloud Endpoints is coming to Golang soon / someday.

B) Cloud Endpoints isn't so great, so it's not going to be implemented in Golang.

C) Something else.

There's this "non-standard" lib https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/go-endpoints but it hasn't been updated in 9 months.

I'm trying to choose between Python and Golang for a GAE project, and this lack of support for Cloud Endpoints is giving me pause.

Thanks in advance.

Zoyd
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Product manager Dan Ciruli answered this on the google-appengine-go mailing list :

There are two primary reasons, and the second is a byproduct of the first. We've had much less uptake on the Endpoints Go framework -- perhaps because, in the words of a developer I spoke to, "Go just isn't a 'framework' language." Unlike, Java, Python (and, say, Node), most developers using Go don't use a framework for writing an API backend.

And, at least partially because of that, we aren't staffed on the Endpoints team to build and support a framework in Go.

He added:

All hope is not lost. You can put a Go API behind Endpoints today on GAE Flex or Container Engine (without framework) using the Extensible Server Proxy. And later this year, we should be able to get the ESP deployed in GAE standard environment, you'll get the full power there, too.

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    Extensible Server Proxy (see e.g. https://cloud.google.com/endpoints/docs/running-esp-localdev) – Zoyd Mar 12 '17 at 16:02
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    Hey Dan. Any status update with golang, standard app engine and cloud endpoints? I sincerely hope so. – IrishGringo Oct 19 '17 at 01:10