Implement well scalable MMORPG with Scala? [closed]

Question

Is Scala a good choice to implement a well scalable MMORPG? I read about people suggesting Erlang, because better concurrency handling. But Scala has actors/message driven concurrency and functional programming. Should not that handle the concurrency and scaling also well?

Sorry I don't know Erlang and also don't have experience with Scala neither MMORPG development. That's why I can't make the question more concrete yet. I'm looking for the best way to go to develop an easily scalable MMORPG. And think Scala maybe is/could be a good choice.

Answer 1

Scala is fine for a MMORPG, but it doesn't necessarily have existing frameworks that are available for other platforms (especially C++). Erlang's fault-tolerance and scalability are legendary, but if you use the Akka framework you'll have a comparable set of capabilities (for the most part).

One advantage to using Scala is that you can take advantage of Project Darkstar, a Java-based platform for MMORPG creation. Here's an example of it being used, though I'm not sure it's actively maintained any more.

Answer 2

Scala actors (consider akka) are actually influenced by erlang. This is highly subjective, but I believe actor model is a great fit for mmorpg.

I guess the overall architecture would involve actor per character/NPC - Akka is perfectly capable of handling millions of actors in a cluster. Oh, did I mention Akka 2.0 can be easily distributed?