On: Unix Domain Sockets vs Loopback TCP Sockets (2014)

[johnmaguire]

FYI, Windows supports Unix domain sockets since Windows 10 / Server 2019.

[adzm → johnmaguire]

I had not head of this! Long story short, AF_UNIX now exists for Windows development.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/af_unix-comes-to-... https://visualrecode.com/blog/unix-sockets/#:~:text=Unix%20d....

[alexvitkov → johnmaguire]

Good thing to mention, thanks.

That's mostly why I said 2 hours and not a day, as you still have to deal with paths (there's no /run) and you may have to fickle with UAC or god save us NTFS permissions