A company I used to work for used to do something like this (I never had access to the source code, but I inspected it closely with Wireshark a time or two). S

A company I used to work for used to do something like this (I never had access to the source code, but I inspected it closely with Wireshark a time or two). Sent over UDP this had stood the test of time for a couple decades or so. Disadvantage: the rest of the system was also written in C++ and it was impossible to get those who had access to the source code and knew it to fix anything. As a result the system looked more and more antiquated and there were more and more hoops to jump through to get it working with every new version of Windows:-/ Edit: that said, I think your comment is a bit off topic :-)