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"a controversial topic"

My observation: The "discussion" never seems to focus on systemd. Instead it usually turns to comments on the former sysvinit system or other init systems.

That avoidance is perhaps something to ponder. And maybe it's why this author felt the urge to put some focus on systemd itself.

Love the quote from djb. In sum, the best interface is no interface. Parsing amounts to high margin for error and often an incredible nuisance.

In another thread today I wrote about the command line interface and "expecting a reponse". Truthfully, djb's utilities that simply return an exit value and no output are the best ones I have ever used.

(It seems djb himself is a systemd user. Not sure what if anything that means.)

Imagine if the information dissiminated via www was as easy to "parse" as text0. Writing a simple "web browser" might be easy enough that programmers would not need to be paid to do it.

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> The "discussion" never seems to focus on systemd

All the more reason to try making this one better.

(We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10370446 and marked it off-topic.)