Good language to develop a game server in?

Question

I was just wondering what language would be a good choice for developing a game server to support a large (thousands) number of users? I dabbled in python, but realized that it

Answer 1

What kind of performance do you need?

twisted is great for servers that need lots of concurrency, as is erlang. Either supports massive concurrency easily and has facilities for distributed computing.

If you want to span more than one core in a python app, do the same thing you'd do if you wanted to span more than one machine — run more than one process.