[rakoo]

Having to run a command for each "client" is a bit limiting; another approach is the one done by jj (https://23.fi/jj/) which opens a fake filesystem where you can directly read from and write to files. You can have a process tail a room, another one writing notifications to another room, etc... Having filesystems like that also means you can mount them from another machine if that's your desire, or use standard file moving tools.

[matthias_hmb]

Thanks, I didn't know about jj and I like that approach too. If jj is inspired by ii, than txmppc is maybe more like sic from design. (But sic is really more minimalistic)