[xgbi]

Story time.. I coded a similar thing when I started working after graduation for a DTV software company; we needed to have an IPC on Linux and I whipped up some very crude equivalent of protobuf (which I didn’t know about), based on an RLE lib i stumbled upon and without any form of discovery.

It was circa 2009, I had only been exposed to plain text protocols and didn’t know about json. In hindsight, we might’ve been better using standard dbus, of protobuf, but I was a rookie and it provided the performance we needed (for DTV metadata).

I’m happy to see that these can still thrive, and I just recently figured out that discovery is a net multiplier in these projects; doing this really proved me that any problem is solvable if you can have some time to think about it and can prototype.

I long for these moments now, I feel like nearly all computing issues have been solved and we are now just plumbers, connecting libraries and software modules through config files instead of building things.

[IshKebab]

Only if you choose to be a plumber. You can equally write new things if you want.

Also I think "any problem is solvable" needs some qualification - there are a ton of problems that have yet to be solved or are super complicated. I still haven't figured out how unbounded model checking works for example.