You need librta if:
- you build embedded software
- you build long running programs such as daemons or servers
- you want to give your program a UI of some kind
- you code using C or C++
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How librta works: |
| - | You're used to dealing with C
structures, so you know that you can think of an array of structures as
a table. The instances are the rows and the structure members are
the columns. |
| - | Is there a standard for dealing
with tables? Sure, SQL. |
| - | That's how librta works. It makes
your program's internal data visible externally as if it was a set of
tables in a Postgres database. |
Advantages and features of librta:
- librta requires only libc and sockets
- UI can be in Java, PHP, C, Python, Perl, Node, Bash,...
- Supports arrays of structs, linked-lists, and other data formats
- SQL and Postgres are well documented
- Network access to your daemon (if TCP sockets)
- File permissions security (if Unix sockets)
- Built-in discovery mechanism
- CPU and memory efficient
- Updates can trigger special processing
- Save-to-file to make some columns non-volatile
- Well defined, tightly controlled access can improve security
