andrewgodwin

There's also eventlet, which gevent was (essentially) forked from - it has the advantage of having both libevent backends (like gevent, and aren't threadsafe due to libevent) and threadsafe backends too (not that I have much call to use threads while using a greenthread-based framework).

Even more impressively, this appears to be for the new protocol version - the new protocol is significantly harder to implement a server for than the old one (I say this having written custom servers for both in Python), and requires, among other things, a full lighting implementation in the server.

I'd be curious to see how this compares to the Java one for speed (and some other SMP servers that are springing up) - it's quite difficult to store an infinite size map efficiently in memory and still keep good random access times.

I saw that earlier in the year - it's a nice idea, but I can't help but think there's a significant portion of people who aren't on GitHub (for example, I have an account, but the majority of my projects are on BitBucket, mostly due to technology choices).

Still, it's certainly a reasonable initial source of people, and I would imagine you'll find that a lot of the "good" programmers who aren't in this list are only a couple of real-life connections away, at most.