@scathach @Suiseiseki @jeffcliff

> a standardized mechanism for exchanging structurally complex data that doesn't require writing ad-hoc parsers on both ends

A parser is just a means of transferring wire-format data into an internal data structure. You cannot have what you are suggesting unless the data structure is the same on both sides, and you cannot get that without coupling the programs so tightly that you may as well abandon pretense at this being IPC.

You don't need to exchange structurally complex data anyway. You need distributed CSP, and you already have it.