@blacklight @Natanox @lorq @cybeej In doing so however, we're now stuck with stringly typed data serialization & deserialization everywhere that constantly causes unnecessary complications and compute overhead.

Not that raw binary packing like XDR would be any nicer to work with, structured pipes/messages with said structure available from the pipe is much nicer to work with.

In other words, those "single tools that do one thing well" are simple-enough to harm composability instead of helping.