[choobacker]

I agree systemd's is easier to understand, and I'm a happy systemd user.

But some of Shepherd's strengths are in other examples, and it makes sense to evaluate the whole.

A few examples:

* if we want multiple similar services, I'd prefer writing a Guile function than using systemd templates.

* the above Shepherd guile code lives lexically alongside your wider Guix guile code. AST-aware syntax highlighting and refactoring tools would treat them the same. That's pretty neat and beats having two different languages. Guix calls this g-expressions.

This "one language for all your system" is pretty compelling, but Guix's feature set is a bit too far behind NixOS at the moment for me.