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		rnmmrnm on Sept 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unix Domain Sockets vs Loopback TCP Sockets (2014) windows is exactly the reason they didn't prevail imo. Windows named pipes have weird security caveats and are not really supported in high level languages. I think this lead everyone to just using loopback TCP as the portable IPC communication API instead of going with unix sockets.

duped on Sept 11, 2023 | [–]

IME a lot of developers have never even heard of address families and treat "socket" as synonymous with TCP (or possibly, but rarely, UDP).

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