Comment by JustSomeNobody

> I'm not convinced.

Great! Because that's not what I'm trying to do. Figure out what works best for you. We did.

> particularly if the code should be cross-platform.

Ours, currently, does not.

> Then there is the whole issue of message (de)serialization. I don't see how this can possibly be easier than starting a thread and communicating with concurrent queue.

We develop in C#. All of this is available from MS.