however I need this to be MULTI-USER not single player.
Multi-User is always way more complicated, no matter the programming language. You have to share data, allow concurrent access and so on.
That said, would a web based solution work for you? If so, you could try a combination of Perl/CGI, HTML/Javascript/Ajax and maybe a database/memcached as data backend.
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