Introducing QtVarlink

[Konqi]

I'm writing this blog in the very very early stages of development because I'm 50% sure someone will link me to some existing library that Google failed to find.

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/introducing-qtvarlink/

[rokejulianlockhart]

@Konqi

Varlink is an IPC mechanism that is gaining popularity in a few places across Linux. It’s very simple, JSON blobs over a socket terminated with a null byte. It doesn’t have anywhere near the features of DBus, but the simplicity is the main selling point.

Some interesting discussion about it exists at YCombinator:

Varlink – IPC to replace D-Bus gradually in systemd