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by tyu1000 2720 days ago
Yes, systemd makes being an application developer on Linux so much easier. You can declaratively control state of your daemons, recover from crashes, add process limits, control startup order correctly and on and on.. Much more readable and usable than bash scripts pulling in random libraries and using endless greps to find out system state.
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> declaratively control state of your daemons

Hum... Symlinks existence is declarative, configuration files are declarative. Running a specific piece of software to change the state of your service isn't declarative at all.