If you want to build systems at scale you want to use a lot of commodity boxes, not a few huge or 'special' machines. I don't drool over the raw horsepower of

If you want to build systems at scale you want to use a lot of commodity boxes, not a few huge or 'special' machines. I don't drool over the raw horsepower of each of my individual boxes.[1] All I care about is that I can cost effectively create a cluster of them to serve the application's needs. Because of this, even if Java could not handle as many concurrent connections, you might still chose it over this fabled 10M socket erlang server you keep talking about. You might chose Java because: * It is well understood and has a lot of mature libraries surrounding it. * You can easily hire people to work on it. * It is a stable language. And so on... I would summarize your original post like this: "I don't like Java, I prefer other things," which is fine as far as it goes, but then you basically say: "Therefore, everyone should also prefer the same things I do," which does not follow. [1] I never particularly cared how many fps I can get on my machine, and I'm not that chuffed about my machine's geekbench score. IMHO this obsession with hardware metrics beyond diminishing returns is mostly a gamer thing.