I’m porting some software to Windows and looking for a simple implementation of message queues, similar to VxWorks. I’ve found MSMQ (Microsoft Message Queue) but that seems to be very dated, requires software installation, and oriented towards servers. But I might be way off base. The docs I’ve found on MSMQ seem to all be dated from about 2014 and are referencing Win7 or Windows Serve, and seem overly complex.

Is there a replacement for MSMQ? Should I just use named pipes?

I’m looking for something mostly built-in to the defaults of Visual Studio.