Which programming language for cloud computing?

Question

Now when the new clod computing-era is coming, and I going to learn to program, don't I know which programming language the clouds support.

I think what the support Java, ASP.NET, PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl etc. and not the low-end languages, like C, C++ etc... Or have i wrong? If whats so, the software company's have to re-develop theirs software. Is this the time you can start a project, and you have no big software company as competitor?

I will just know in which language I will invest my time so I can develop for the cloud.

Sorry for my bad english, I know it's not the best one(wrong word)!

Answer 1

"Cloud computing" is more of an operating-system-level concept than a language concept.

Let's say you want to host an application on Amazon's EC2 cloud computing service -- you can develop it in any language you like, on any operating system supported by EC2 (several flavors of Linux, Solaris, and Windows), then install and run it "in the cloud" on one or more virtual machines, much as you would do on a dedicated physical server.

Answer 2

Maybe you should first check out what cloud computing is.

To answer your question, it does not really matter which language you program in; heck, you can even code in assembly if you want.

Answer 3

Of the languages you mention Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl are certainly more platform independent than C/C++ (and ASP.NET).

Lots of platform-specific differences also come from what libraries are available for a given platform.

In practice however, I think you will always develop on the same or at least very similar platform (operating system flavour) as the system where your code will run, i.e. the cloud will not take source code and compile it for you before running it.

Personally I would go for Java or Python (probably also Ruby) as they have a vast number of libraries available for all kinds of tasks and are very platform independent.