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What My Project Does
Mangle.dev is a lightweight, cross-language inter-process communication (IPC) framework that enables seamless data exchange between programs written in different programming languages.
No more server for simple tasks, easier, faster.
Target Audience
- Electron / Desktop Software Developers - Need to call ANY language from their app without servers
- Data Scientists / ML Engineers - Mix Python ML with performance languages like Rust/Go
- Full-Stack Developers - Call any language from their backend for specific tasks
- Game Developers - Any language calling any other for AI, physics, mods
- DevOps / Automation - Chain scripts across ANY combination of languages
Comparison
| Purpose | HTTP client | Python server | JS server | RPC framework | Cross-language IPC |
| Setup | Minimal | Medium | Medium | Complex | Zero |
| Requires server? | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| Cross-language? | ⚠️ Via HTTP | ⚠️ Via HTTP | ⚠️ Via HTTP | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Local only? | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Config needed? | Low | Medium | Medium | High | None |
It currently supports 9 languages:
- Python
- JavaScript
- Ruby
- Java
- C
- C++
- C#
- Go
- Rust
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Note that Mangle.dev is currently in Early Access, which means there might be some bugs and errors in either the package or the documentation.
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