Replacing pipes with IPv6 sounds like a recipe for disaster. It may be distasteful, but the ease of forking processes and communicating between them in C on UNI

Replacing pipes with IPv6 sounds like a recipe for disaster. It may be distasteful, but the ease of forking processes and communicating between them in C on UNIX has been very useful to me. I haven't even bothered looking into DBus, etc. because they're overkill for my requirements. Providing only one, complicated way to do something is not great, especially when simple alternatives exist. P.S. I'm not sure if your proposal rewrites 'pipes' in the shell as well - the overhead in a one-liner would be awful.