(08-04-2020, 04:03 PM)josuah Wrote: I like that vision with putting all different kinds of services though a same protocol, because such a waste of time wasted writing code for parsing protocols! (IMAP for instance...)

That reminds me of inetd and Systemd socket activation which are both implementation of the idea of super-server aka service dispatcher, listening on a tcp socket for events that tells it how to manage services.