ZeroMQ

There’s a newish IPC framework generating some buzz amongst my colleagues and their networks. I was on the phone to a colleague the other day and he started telling me about a new IPC library he’s using called 0MQ (aka ZeroMQ). It seems to do a lot of smart stuff for you and has obviously generated some enthusiasm amongst its adopters:

How to explain ØMQ? Some of us start by saying all the wonderful things it does. It’s sockets on steroids. It’s like mailboxes with routing. It’s fast! Others try to share their moment of enlightenment, that zap-pow-kaboom satori paradigm-shift moment when it all became obvious. Things just become simpler. Complexity goes away. It opens the mind. Others try to explain by comparison. It’s smaller, simpler, but still looks familiar. Personally, I like to remember why we made ØMQ at all, because that’s most likely where you, the reader, still are today.

Is it worth checking out or is it just another programming fashion / fad? The website is http://www.zeromq.org/.