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by hikz 4053 days ago
I think there is very little overhead on both the server side and the client. Server side is written in C++ with libuv for networking and client side is written in pure javascript without the use of any frameworks or libraries.

So Agar.io is probably making money.

The dev describes his stack here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9463842