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by pabs3 1545 days ago
Debian ended up moving to systemd, I think that had a much larger effect on init performance than compiled shell would have.

The idea though reminds me of the project to shrink essential, including eventually removing bash from essential.

https://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/EssentialOnDiet

Related work is getting rid of package postinst shell scripts by making everything declarative.