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Two-way communication
In our current client-server implementation, communication flows in
one direction: from the client to the server.
The client has no way of knowing if the server received the message,
executed it successfully, or failed. That’s not ideal.
To solve this issue, we can introduce a two-way communication system.
Response channel
We need a way for the server to send a response back to the
client.
There are various ways to do this, but the simplest option is to include
a Sender channel in the message that the client sends to
the server. After processing the message, the server can use this
channel to send a response back to the client.
This is a fairly common pattern in Rust applications built on top of message-passing primitives.