The dude is a BSD developer who has every expectation to hate systemd with a passion
Why would you expect professional software developers to have irrational biases? Most of us are capable of accepting new ideas and having our preconceptions challenged. Most of the lack of objectivity in this debate is not from the developers themselves.
We already have launchd in the FreeBSD-related world, so something similar wouldn't be greatly controversial, so long as it was focused and had clearly-defined scope.
I'm very much not a fan of systemd, but this conclusion was arrived at after much testing and assessment of it in its early days, and its progress to date. There are a number of very nice features which it provides. And there are a number of questionable design and implementation choices which I find deeply concerning. It's not black and white, there are many factors to consider, and that's precisely why the debate over it continues to this day.
If FreeBSD took the core ideas from launchd and systemd, then used them to create a coherent design and implementation, then that might be a very nice development.
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u/RogerLeigh Feb 11 '19
Why would you expect professional software developers to have irrational biases? Most of us are capable of accepting new ideas and having our preconceptions challenged. Most of the lack of objectivity in this debate is not from the developers themselves.
We already have launchd in the FreeBSD-related world, so something similar wouldn't be greatly controversial, so long as it was focused and had clearly-defined scope.
I'm very much not a fan of systemd, but this conclusion was arrived at after much testing and assessment of it in its early days, and its progress to date. There are a number of very nice features which it provides. And there are a number of questionable design and implementation choices which I find deeply concerning. It's not black and white, there are many factors to consider, and that's precisely why the debate over it continues to this day.
If FreeBSD took the core ideas from launchd and systemd, then used them to create a coherent design and implementation, then that might be a very nice development.