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aviationMEDIUM2026-04-25 08:28 UTC

IPC Pipe vs Unix Socket for a Resident Daemon in Tauri — What I Learned

All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. When I built Ghost Engine — a resident Swift daemon that handles PDF rendering — I had to decide how Rust talks to it. Two options: stdin/stdout IPC pipe, or a Unix domain socket. I tried both. Here's what actually happened. Simple. Spawn the process with

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