Web-based games

What is the best programming language for making web-based multi-player games?

BBCode

ACTIONSCRIPT!

HTML

>>4
Use XHTML. It's a Touring complete extension of HTML.

Java. Not JavaScript.

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TCL

TCL is actually pretty respectable for scripting.

Java

most web based games use php

Flash actionscript, nuff said

>>12
this would explain why most web-based games suck horribly

I PREFER FTP

At the moment I'd go with Python. It's mainstream, the community is large, there are plenty of actively-developed libraries, it supports unicode, and it's moderately fast.

Alternatives: Perl (arcane), Tcl (small community), PHP (bring your own lube), Ruby (slow). PHP and Ruby aren't all that hot with Unicode either, although that probably isn't a problem for a web game.

The only problem with Python is self.it's __something__ """ugly""" with FORCED INDENTATION OF CODE.

For the front end, your only choices are Javascript or Flash, so screw a pooch.

>>16
Python's syntax is clean. It has its quirks, but you don't have to use '''triple-quotes''' at all, you can afford to mark your __special__ methods (which are never names of your own), and self and the forced indentation of code are actually good. Compared to Perl or Ruby's, or even PHP's, Python's syntax is pristine.

Tcl is awesome in the sense that it's like a Lisp, only it's based on strings instead of lists, although I've heard its scope handling isn't the best (though it has uplevel, which is awesome for macros) and it's bound to be slow.

>>17
The "everything is a string" isn't quite true, and Tcl has been using bytecode for quite a few years too. It used to be comparable to Perl or Python speedwise, although it's probably fallen a bit behind.

And I know it's a matter of taste, but I think Python's syntax is quite ugly, mainly because of __. I used to work with a project that had a lot of voodoo going on, so __ was everywhere, and it hurt the eyes. """ is a bit retarded in my opinion, because it could have been the default behaviour of " or '. self... is okay, I suppose; it reminds me a lot of ad-hoc OO in C. List comprehensions aren't all that hot either, given what I see people trying to cram into one line, when a normal loop would do just as well; list comprehensions are useful for parallel programming, but Python can't do that.

But I digress.

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