D-Bus Versus Varlink

[Thomas Kluyver]

On Tue, 2 Apr 2024, at 15:19, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>    all
>    those tools that in the recent years gained a switch to output JSON
>    data? You can think of Varlink being a small extension to that: it
>    also allows taking *input* via JSON (rather than the cmdline), and
>    boom you can suddenly bind that tool to a socket and turned into
>    into an IPC service. That's a much smaller step for such tools than
>    making them become D-Bus services.

Thanks, that does make sense, and it's a very interesting point.

Thomas