[phintjens]

Before I opened the 0MQ Pandora box I'd given up coding and was happily writing my autobiography. 0MQ seemed like a pleasant way to spend a weekend. But before I knew it, I'd lost control. Days, weeks, months have passed now, all I think about are more subtle and perfect messaging patterns. They flash before my eyes. Weird names and topologies. It doesn't get better, but worse. Soon I'll be coding all nighters, my wife will leave me, my kids will forget me, and all I'll be doing is programming, motherfucker.

Seriously, 0MQ has made network programming fun (again) in a bad, addictive, way. Any design I can think of turns into real working code in a few hours, sometimes days. And I'm using C, a language that isn't normally fun to work in.

Right now, it's multithreaded clients and servers for resilient shared distributed hash maps. Tomorrow, network-wide logging. After that, another message broker. And so on.

Yes, it's a negative experience. I'd like my old lazy life back.

For the love of god, don't try it.

[jrussbowman]

I've already been there working with all the apis I use on unscatter.com fortunately with 2 kids I have to stop. Though I have had some very tired weeks when I can't sleep cause I am up all night coding