Yep very similar, just over UDS
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Ah
So this is linux specific?
MacOS has UDS as well, and Windows has Named Pipes instead which is almost identical. I haven't messed with Named Pipes yet, but this should be cross-platform eventually.
I definitely like the uds/named pipes approach
if you have a controller/worker process relation you can even use stdin/out
We got a NIP!
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1222
The NIP covers UDS communication more generally. I wrote a reference implementation in Rust that uses JSON-RPC 2.0 requests/responses wrapped in NIP-04 events exactly as described in NIP-46:
https://crates.io/crates/nip-55
The crate comes with a very basic NIP-46-over-NIP-55 module: