That was my PI's response to my own similar exhortations when I tried to sell him on using ZMQ in the laboratory context for coordinating control and data passing for time series data gathering scientific experiment equipment, so I did a proof of concept which quickly won him over and ZMQ is still there, years on, and works without complaint. Some bombast for such a minimal and powerful lib is justified. https://github.com/zplab/rpc-scope