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+# Metacall
+
+A while ago I needed to find a simple cross-platform IPC library to use for one of my projects. After a good amount of
+searching, I was disappointed to discover that although there were lots of libraries for handling IPC, all were very
+"enterprisey", had a lot of dependencies, and generally difficult to integrate into my simple console application.
+Basically, I wanted to use something that was easier than raw sockets/pipes, but conceptually simpler than a gigantic
+platform-specific monster like [WCF](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Communication_Foundation). Before long, I
+came to the realization that there was nothing left to do but write to this library for myself. I called it "Metacall"
+to reflect the use of C++ template metaprogramming in its implementation, combined with the notion of "calling"
+functions over the TCP/IP sockets.
+
+Metacall was designed with the following principles in mind:
+
+*   Do be cross-platform compatible between Linux and Windows.
+*   Don't depend on anything outside of
+    [CRT](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runtime_library),
+    [STL](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Template_Library) and
+    [sockets](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_socket).
+*   Do prefer simplicity over a complex feature set.
+*   Do keep boilerplate code requirements to a minimum.
+
+This page is still a work in progress, check out the [code repository](https://github.com/FooSoft/metacall/) for the
+time being!
+