There's also C++ implementations like boost::asio which would work and scale just fine too. There was a HN post discussing Alex Payne's blog on how node.js is

There's also C++ implementations like boost::asio which would work and scale just fine too. There was a HN post discussing Alex Payne's blog on how node.js is "scaling in the small." http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1552908 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1552908 http://al3x.net/2010/07/27/node.html http://al3x.net/2010/07/27/node.html