A self-hosted alternative to Chess.com designed for high-concurrency real-time gaming. It leverages Scala's non-blocking I/O and Akka actors to handle millions of simultaneous websocket connections with minimal latency.
Tech Stack
ScalaSocial Networks
Why lila?
• Extremely scalable
• Ad-free philosophy
• Production proven (Lichess)
Limitations
• Very complex deployment
• High resource requirements
• Steep Scala learning curve
1/14/2026
Last Update
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Forks
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Issues
AGPL-3.0
License
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