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cjohnson318 on Oct 13, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Janet – a Lisp-like functional, imperative program...

Dumb question: Is IPC Inter-Process Communication? Or is it an unrelated tool?

matvore on Oct 13, 2021 [–]

> Is IPC Inter-Process Communication? Or is it an unrelated tool?

The former. Piping with the shell, or C subprocess hosted by the Janet script, or vice-versa.

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