I discovered process.send() in Node a couple years ago and it made the decision to fork a child process a lot easier. No need to sanitize command line output when you can do direct IPC over a connection that uses JSON under the hood.

The itch I can’t seem to scratch is how to run tasks in parallel and have logs that are legible to coworkers. We do JSON formatted logs in production and I’m wondering if something like this would help solve that set of problems.