I have two applications (both pure Lua, on Windows) and they should be able to talk to each other. I have successfully used the luasocket TCP / IP module; but I want to know what other methods can I use to achieve this?
Steve Donovan winapi library supports IPC through named pipes similar to Unix domain sockets.
Examples are available here and here .
If you want something multi-platform, consider 0MQ; Lua binding here
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