[klabb3]

I guess I'm ignorant then! When I looked up domain sockets and so on it turned out to be different APIs for different OS:s, and it's significantly nicer to rely on a single API surface from the std lib. Maybe it's a habit thing as well, but to me pipes are more esoteric and harder to find docs about than network sockets.

[jbverschoor]

But they are not (named) pipes, it’s the same api. Just speak http or whatever over the socket. Afaik, windows also seems to support it these days

[pstuart]

> I guess I'm ignorant then!

We all are in our own ways ;-). I pulled that comment out of my ass so I'm ok with being corrected as appropriate.