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		blakeyrat on June 25, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Unix Philosophy That's how a lot of well-designed software works, including Windows (in general) and old-school Mac Classic with AppleEvents (not sure if OS X still does that.)

jalfresi on June 25, 2015 [–]

Yeah it kinda reminds me of the "plumbing and porcelain" approach of some programs like git. It also is nice that a lot of modern init process can fire up the back ends on demand and kill them after a while.

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