Interestingly enough, Jeff Kesselman was working on Java middleware for MMOs at Sun Microsystems before the Oracle acquisition. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w

Interestingly enough, Jeff Kesselman was working on Java middleware for MMOs at Sun Microsystems before the Oracle acquisition. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Darkstar https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Darkstar There's definitely some value in using more productive languages for the backend services, as they're not as latency sensitive as rendering.