Indeed. The original "sockets on steroids" story was wrong, though sincere. Sockets are the API but the actual machine underneath is nothing like a BSD socket. ZeroMQ has in the last years moved away from the "it's a BSD socket" metaphor as it is a tediously limiting API in many ways, and created the unnecessary confusion that I wanted to pick on in this story.
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Indeed. The original "sockets on steroids" story was wrong, though sincere. Sockets are the API but the actual machine underneath is nothing like a BSD socket. ZeroMQ has in the last years moved away from the "it's a BSD socket" metaphor as it is a tediously limiting API in many ways, and created the unnecessary confusion that I wanted to pick on in this story.