Also, when choosing an app for one’s own use, the platform it runs on merely serves as a first cut, simply because you typically don’t want to buy a 2nd computer just to run your bit torrent client. What drove me to pick Azureus was that I liked its features, that I could run it on Linux only served to placed it in the pool from which I picked it.
So, there or something. Lots of rambling and pontificating. Bottom line, chose the right tool for the job, don’t pick the same tool and then spend a bunch of time trying to drive a nail with a screwdriver; think about what sort of game you want to play and pick a game/system that will help you do that, not hinder you.
Some links:
System Does Matter – Read the other articles in on this site to really soak your head in game theory!
Choosing the right server-side scripting language
The Language Pissing Match
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