Run0, a systemd based alternative to sudo, announced

systemd has been a net positive for the linux ecosystem. remember when you had to write bash scripts to start, stop, restart services and handle any other signals you want to send it? nowadays it's a unit file (basically just an ini file) away with relatively straightforward API. and you can actually declare startup dependencies and other useful relationships past just "prepend a number signifying when it should run globally to the front of the filename". it's provided an extensible platform with which higher level orchestration frameworks like ansible / ignition can easily templatize services or other system configuration.

since the beginning of systemd people have moaned about how complex it is and how we're reinventing the wheel. yet time and time again the people actually working on the project show that the solution they've come up with is the result of the problem they're facing on a daily basis. it's quite annoying that the armchair linux experts complain about how "lol systemd is so stupid for reinventing the wheel, give me my shell scripts back", maybe think about whether or not you have a legitimate issue not being addressed by the solution proposed or if you are just getting rage baited by a headline.

> you can actually declare startup dependencies and other useful relationships

In theory, yes. In practice, I had a lot of trouble ordering things correctly in non-trivial cases.

> it's quite annoying that the armchair linux experts complain about how "lol systemd is so stupid for reinventing the wheel, give me my shell scripts back"

I can only speak for myself, but I don't want the abysmal sysvinit scripts back. I just want a simple process supervision suite which is true to the UNIX way of doing things. The sysvinit/systemd dichotomy is false.

Runit and s6 are both very real alternatives to systemd. They lack a ton of features, but they are a way to reliably run services. They do use shell scripts, but not for the reasons sysvinit did. They are extremely simple and have a very small attack surface as a result. Runit itself is a spiritual descendant of daemontools which predate systemd by great many years.

The problem with systemd is that it's a mediocre solution to many problems. UNIX deserved better.

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