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

I know facebook uses a combination of Erlang and C++ for their chat engine.

Whatever you decide, if you choose a combination of languages, check out facebook's thrift framework for cross language services deployment. They open sourced it about a year+ back:

http://incubator.apache.org/thrift/