Ioctl is a deranged joke. The rest has held up surprisingly well, and I regularly find myself dropping down a few layers of abstraction to get away from higher

Ioctl is a deranged joke. The rest has held up surprisingly well, and I regularly find myself dropping down a few layers of abstraction to get away from higher level APIs. I can generally get more done faster with a binary pipe and some sort of generator for serialization than with higher level communication APIs.