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KaVir:
Only if you need to do it commercially rather than run it on your own box. At the very low-cost level nix hosting is available much cheaper than nix (small account on a shared machine). Once you're on a dedicated machine, hosting costs aren't THAT bad for Windows. I'm not sure how much the platform stability argument counts for these days. How many active muds go for so long without code changes that the difference between uptime for Windows vs nix really matters? (remember that he's proposing a Smaug derivative, not a fully scripted MUSH with sockets hardcoded but not much else)
Windows does have the advantage of native async socket support without having to worry about threading issues (yes, various *nix's have their own flavors, but they seem to be in flux, while the Windows implementation has been usable and stable for what, 10 years now?). This could be a very big plus for a first-time developer.
The biggest problem I see is Delphi- it's just not that common, making recruitment harder.
Stilton
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