[brokenwren]

I wrote most of the server code for the project and I actually looked extensively at Loom.

We decided to anchor the project to LTS Java versions only. The issue with Loom is that as a preview release, you can't use it without introducing compiled code that is hard to deploy on new LTS versions. We ran into this with Java 14 and used a bunch of the preview features in that release. When we upgraded to Java 17, it caused a number of issues and we had to rebuild almost everything.

Once the next LTS has been released and Loom is top-level, we'll definitely look at using it as long as the Java community is willing to make the jump with us.

In the meantime, I think our threading implementation works quite nicely and scales really well. Let me know what you think if you review the code.