alt Hacker News"Intimate communication" here almost certainly refers to shared memory. No one is claiming passing JSON over the wire is the same as linking, or else a GPL webserver could insist that browsers be licensed under the GPL.
"Intimate communication" here almost certainly refers to shared memory. No one is claiming passing JSON over the wire is the same as linking, or else a GPL webserver could insist that browsers be licensed under the GPL.
> "Intimate communication" here almost certainly refers to shared memory.
No, shared memory is addressed later within the same answer.
> Using shared memory to communicate with complex data structures is pretty much equivalent to dynamic linking.
The first part of the answer clearly includes programs sending each other "complex data structures", including nested JSON data, over pipes.