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minus-squareumbrella@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 months agohow is varlink better than dbus to justify that change?
minus-squareijhoo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down2·2 months agoThe main reason is that Dbus is not available during early stages of boot. There are many others. Varlink seems to be better or the same compared to dbus in all except two things: json doesn’t handle 64bit integers, it handles 52bit (or 54bit?) (size of mantissa for floats) you cannot (yet) list all things connected to the bus Details here: https://media.ccc.de/v/all-systems-go-2024-276-varlink-now-
how is varlink better than dbus to justify that change?
The main reason is that Dbus is not available during early stages of boot. There are many others.
Varlink seems to be better or the same compared to dbus in all except two things:
Details here:
https://media.ccc.de/v/all-systems-go-2024-276-varlink-now-