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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!