ELelfenpiff·Apr 15, 2024
I am one of the maintainers of iceoryx and the creator of iceoryx2, so I wanted to add and complete some more details.
iceoryx/iceoryx2 was intended for safety-critical systems initially but now expands to all other domains. In safety-critical systems that run, for instance, in cars or planes, you do not want to have undefined behavior - but the STL is full of it, so we had to reimplement an STL subset in (https://github.com/eclipse-iceoryx/iceoryx/tree/master/iceor...) that does not use heap, exceptions or comes with undefined behavior.
So you can send vectors or strings via iceoryx, but you have to use our STL implementations.
It also comes with a service-oriented architecture; you can create a service - identified by name - and communicate via publish-subscribe, request-response, and direct events (and in the planning: pipeline or blac
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One major thing is iceoryx robustness. In safety-critical systems, we have a term called freedom-of-interference, meaning that a crash in application A does not affect application B. When they communicate via shared memory, for instance, and use a mutex, they could dead-lock each other when one app dies while holding the mutex. This is why we go for lock-free algorithms here that are tested meticulously, and we are also planning a formal verification of those lock-free constructs.
iceoryx2 is the next-gen of iceoryx where we refactored the architecture heavily to make it more modular and address all the major pain points.
* no longer requires a central daemon and has decentralized all the management tasks, so you get the same behavior without the daemon
* comes with events that can be either based on an underlying fd-event (slower but can be integrated with OS event-multiplexing), or you can choose the fast semaphore route (it is now up to the user)
Currently, we are also working on language bindings for C, C++, Python, Lua, Swift, C#, etc.