[chuckadams]

It's entirely possible that both SysV init and systemd suck for different reasons. I'm still partial to systemd since it takes care of daemons and supervision in a way that init does not, but I'll take s6 or process-compose or even supervisord if I have to. Horses for courses.

[plagiarist]

I want to love s6 but every time I see the existence of s6-rc-compile I get heated. I'm sure there are excellent reasons behind it but I personally don't want services to work that way.

[chuckadams]

Yah, that does look awfully baroque. My experience with s6 has largely been minor tweaks to an existing setup where the complexity was hidden away from me. I used to use runit for managing daemons, but nowadays my supervisor of choice is docker compose. process-compose does look enticing though, and the Nix world seems pretty fond of it.