alt Hacker NewsThey drop this use-case, but still use sockets for IPC, so I still have to pretend I'm doing network programming, serialize my messages over the "network" and "flush the stream" (insanity) but don't actually get any of the benefits of this model.
I genuinely wonder if they stopped to think why X11 has sockets or just blindly copied it over. Or are they unaware other forms of IPC exist, that don't require you to go through the kernel 13 times to send a byte to the other process?
What would you rather they use to communicate with the server? Message passing via shared memory?
UNIX sockets are perfectly fine for IPC with small amounts of data, and is how everything in UNIX has always done it, network transparency or not. They provide a simple, efficient and reliable communication channel between two processes.