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