FWIW, I'd recommend Java NIO, it's served me really well on Mibbit, so feel free to ping me if you decide to go that route. Whatever language you choose though

FWIW, I'd recommend Java NIO, it's served me really well on Mibbit, so feel free to ping me if you decide to go that route. Whatever language you choose though there's plenty of interesting scaling problems to work on ;)