[amelius]

It depends if you are a fan of a centralized server vs decentralized communication.

Anyway, all the complexities of using sockets/FIFOs could be hidden inside libraries.

[SAI_Peregrinus]

Once you hide the complexities of using sockets you just end up with some sort of message bus that each application connects to and registers an ID with... which is essentially what dbus is.

[amelius]

I specifically said libraries (as opposed to a centralized service).