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ZeroMQ's variety of socket semantics is great, and it does a good job abstracting away the messy details of TCP. You can build rather complicated systems on top

ZeroMQ's variety of socket semantics is great, and it does a good job abstracting away the messy details of TCP. You can build rather complicated systems on top of it much easier and faster than you could using raw sockets. The implementation itself has some rough spots, such as the multi threading. I really like the elegance of nanomsg, but it never really got the same polish that ZeroMQ did. I wouldn't expect the same raw throughput as a hand-tuned TCP based protocol, but it's generally more than fast enough for most use cases. I believe the original developer passed away a few years ago?

nathancahill 6y ago
Pieter Hintjens @hintjens passed away in 2016.
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- endgame 6y ago
  He wrote very frankly about his impending death, too: http://hintjens.com/blog:123 http://hintjens.com/blog:123 EDIT: This is the post I was looking for: http://hintjens.com/blog:115 http://hintjens.com/blog:115
  - mbreese 6y ago
    And discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11547212 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11547212
RabbitmqGuy 6y ago
> I believe the original developer passed away a few years ago? Yeah, via euthanasia. https://twitter.com/hintjens/status/783254242052206592?s=21 https://twitter.com/hintjens/status/783254242052206592?s=21
antman 6y ago
And he was passing away due to cancer came to HN for one of his last discussions. He also mentioned he was broke and a PayPal account for donations for his family was mentioned. nkurz on Apr 18, 2016 [–] Thanks. Does anything come to mind that you should have done more of (or instead)? PieterH on Apr 18, 2016 [–] Probably more frequent checkups, to be honest. Though it's probably moot. " https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11520888 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11520888
Guthur 6y ago
Pieter Hintjens, whom you are referring to, was actually not so much involved in the development of the core ZeroMQ library, though he certainly contributed. His main role was building a community and he did develop a high level C binding czmq. Martin Sustrik was actually what could be referred to as the lead engineer for the initial ZeroMQ project, though he left it quite some time ago.

nathancahill 6y ago

Pieter Hintjens @hintjens passed away in 2016.

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endgame 6y ago
He wrote very frankly about his impending death, too: http://hintjens.com/blog:123 http://hintjens.com/blog:123 EDIT: This is the post I was looking for: http://hintjens.com/blog:115 http://hintjens.com/blog:115
- mbreese 6y ago
  And discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11547212 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11547212

RabbitmqGuy 6y ago

> I believe the original developer passed away a few years ago? Yeah, via euthanasia. https://twitter.com/hintjens/status/783254242052206592?s=21 https://twitter.com/hintjens/status/783254242052206592?s=21

antman 6y ago

And he was passing away due to cancer came to HN for one of his last discussions. He also mentioned he was broke and a PayPal account for donations for his family was mentioned. nkurz on Apr 18, 2016 [–] Thanks. Does anything come to mind that you should have done more of (or instead)? PieterH on Apr 18, 2016 [–] Probably more frequent checkups, to be honest. Though it's probably moot. " https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11520888 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11520888

Guthur 6y ago

Pieter Hintjens, whom you are referring to, was actually not so much involved in the development of the core ZeroMQ library, though he certainly contributed. His main role was building a community and he did develop a high level C binding czmq. Martin Sustrik was actually what could be referred to as the lead engineer for the initial ZeroMQ project, though he left it quite some time ago.