Telnet lib and language choice for cross OS telnet client?

Question

I'm looking to start a MUD client application, which connects to a MUD hosted on a telnet server. The only thing important to me is that it runs painlessly and efficiently across any OS. Aside from that requirement, I'm not really sold on any language.

So I'm looking for a freely available telnet client library on which I can base my application, so I don't have to deal with the details of the protocol too much.

Answer 1

I would always consider Twisted for this kind of thing (Python).

The beauty is that if you later decide to swap it out to SSH or anything more secure than telnet, you can with little pain.