You _still_ need a consistent way to talk about values; IPC systems tackle the same problems under the name marshalling & de/serialisation. They just tend to ta

You _still_ need a consistent way to talk about values; IPC systems tackle the same problems under the name marshalling & de/serialisation. They just tend to take much more conservative options to deal with exactly this kind of problem (you don't have to care about integer endian-ness if integers are expressed as strings).