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A programming language for creating an online chat service

what is best for the programming language and technology to make an online chat service that scales to support 50,000 concurrent users, so we use bandwidth at a minimum (web server friendly). I've considered using php or python, are they good options?

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Any of the web languages ​​(Perl, PHP, Python, Java / JSP) are fine. Your skills as a developer are more important than your choice of language.



If you're good enough, use Lisp :) [Frequent readers of JoelOnSoftware should catch the link:]

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For What It's Worth Facebook used Erlang to scale their chat room to use 70 million users . But Erlang is not at all like PHP or Python, and if you haven't had the opportunity to use a functional language before, it's probably a bit of a learning curve.



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