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		otabdeveloper4 on July 15, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ZeroMQ: High-Performance Concurrency Framework I don't see what ZMQ abstracts that you don't get in TCP already. Is this all just about having a common cross-language API for TCP? Wasn't "BSD sockets" supposed to be that?

haneul on July 15, 2024 [–]

For me, the benefit was a lot of convenience.

And, the component was just "a component" and not "the purpose" of what I was building, so went with ZMQ.

I'm also highly inexperienced in that area, so ZMQ having a singular, well-written, linear manual was a huge benefit.

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