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JavaScript

JavaScript runs on the server via Node.js, using an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model. It is suitable for game servers with I/O-bound workloads and offers a large ecosystem of packages, though its single-threaded event loop can become a bottleneck for CPU-intensive game logic.

Visit the following resources to learn more:

• @official@Socket.IO - Real-Time Bidirectional Event-Based Communication
• @article@Express/Node.js Server-Side Development - MDN
• @article@WebSocket API - MDN Web Docs