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zproc

Process on steroids

2Distinct people
11Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
113GitHub stars
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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:02:05 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week11 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-05-02 05:56:09 UTC to 2018-11-11 14:51:44 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

0123452018-04-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsApr 302018-05-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-05-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-05-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-05-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-06-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-07-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-07-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-07-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-07-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-07-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-07-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-07-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-07-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-07-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-07-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-08-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 302018-08-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-08-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-08-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-08-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-08-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-08-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2018-08-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-09-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-09-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-09-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-09-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-09-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-09-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-09-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-09-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-10-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-10-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-10-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-10-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-10-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-10-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-10-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-10-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-11-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsNov 5

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Apr 302018-04-30 00:00:00 UTC2018-05-07 00:00:00 UTC110
May 72018-05-07 00:00:00 UTC2018-05-14 00:00:00 UTC000
May 142018-05-14 00:00:00 UTC2018-05-21 00:00:00 UTC000
May 212018-05-21 00:00:00 UTC2018-05-28 00:00:00 UTC000
May 282018-05-28 00:00:00 UTC2018-06-04 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 42018-06-04 00:00:00 UTC2018-06-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 112018-06-11 00:00:00 UTC2018-06-18 00:00:00 UTC101
Jun 182018-06-18 00:00:00 UTC2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 252018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC2018-07-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 22018-07-02 00:00:00 UTC2018-07-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 92018-07-09 00:00:00 UTC2018-07-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 162018-07-16 00:00:00 UTC2018-07-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 232018-07-23 00:00:00 UTC2018-07-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 302018-07-30 00:00:00 UTC2018-08-06 00:00:00 UTC101
Aug 62018-08-06 00:00:00 UTC2018-08-13 00:00:00 UTC101
Aug 132018-08-13 00:00:00 UTC2018-08-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 202018-08-20 00:00:00 UTC2018-08-27 00:00:00 UTC505
Aug 272018-08-27 00:00:00 UTC2018-09-03 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 32018-09-03 00:00:00 UTC2018-09-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 102018-09-10 00:00:00 UTC2018-09-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 172018-09-17 00:00:00 UTC2018-09-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 242018-09-24 00:00:00 UTC2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 12018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-10-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 82018-10-08 00:00:00 UTC2018-10-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 152018-10-15 00:00:00 UTC2018-10-22 00:00:00 UTC101
Oct 222018-10-22 00:00:00 UTC2018-10-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 292018-10-29 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-05 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 52018-11-05 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-12 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

5 sources
> "high performance" I never claimed it to be performant! "Above all, ZProc is written for safety and the ease of use." (Read here - https://github.com/pycampers/zproc?files=1#faq) > It's not a revolution I totally agree. It's just a better way of doing things zmq already perfected. Like, tell me if you've ever seen a python object that has a `dict` API, but does message passing in the background. > central (pubsub?) server. Central server, yes. It uses PUB-SUB for state watching and REQ-REP for everything else. > you've just "discovered" message-passing Guess you're right? 2 years is a peanut on the time scale... P.S. Thanks for all the feedback, I've been dying to hear something for a while now.
In Parallel Programming with Python
> deal with serialization and communication I thought a lot about this problem, for over 2 years, and came up with zproc https://github.com/pycampers/zproc Basically, > It lets you do message passing parallelism without the effort of tedious wiring. You'll be doing message passing without ever dealing with sockets! Also, Shared memory parallelism is hard to get right irregardless of which language you use. I would recommend strongly against it, unless you're writing some really really really niche thing where message passing is a bottleneck (it isn't most of the time)
In Parallel Programming with Python

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