why do people shit on D-Bus again? I went over this not long ago, but it's a standardization thing for the GNU/Linux desktop. It's like UNIX but for the desktop, literally. What's so bad about D-Bus?
@neko XML, running daemon, kinda obnoxious to code with in C. it's basically a pub-sub socket or plan 9's plumber but written by CADTs instead.
@neko because the kernel didn't offer pubsub sockets at the time.
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@icedquinn @neko i have the vague feeling that one could maybe have build something with posix message queues.
freedesktop.org stuff always feels overengineered but haphazardly implemented.
@bonifartius 
old thread but as i recall the kernel at the time did not offer multiplexed queues. it now does, but nobody is paying to rewrite old code.
old thread but as i recall the kernel at the time did not offer multiplexed queues. it now does, but nobody is paying to rewrite old code.
@icedquinn oh, sorry for raising the dead :)
i think the posix message queues are quite old, but i only learned of them a few years ago too because winter here in fedi wrote something about them :)
