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An interesting socket library...

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 11:01 pm
by Kennydin
Ever since I came across ZeroMQ, I've been toying with the idea of creating a Chat Server (possibly to be included in some kind of in game chat system) with it. It's basically a Socket Library but it has bindings for all the main programming languages and scripting languages (C,C++, Python and also web-based languages such as PHP). The beauty of this would be that if you created a non-browser based MMO you could theoretically create a PM System (or even a chat system) that's available inside and outside of the game. I'm sure there are other ways, but since this library has all the out-of-the-box support for multiple platforms I thought it'd be interesting to point out.

Currently I have created a small independent Client/Server system in Python but I believe there are greater possibilites with this.

It has a lot more uses, you could send streams of data through it in-game but lets keep things simple for now :P

Just thought i'd point it out :)

Jordan