gens@programming.devtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Which communication protocol or open standard in software do you wish was more common or used more?
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5 months agoUds, shm, fuse for ipc. Ini for configs.
Uds, shm, fuse for ipc. Ini for configs.
Having a company behind software means you can pay to have your bugs fixed. Big distros want that stability for their corporate customers. It’s no secret or anything. KDE has sponsors, but doesn’t have a direct relationship with a huge contractor like RH. Same reasoning for systemd.
Politics, basically.
Contrary to popular opinion, i’m gonna guess graphics driver. Specifically the shader compiler.
Unix domain sockets, shared memory (classic and/or over anonymous file descriptors), file system in userspace, the (ms) ini format.
Was going to sleep when i wrote that.