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It would appear none have sufficient interested developers to work on an init replacement
by jamespo 9y ago
It would appear none have sufficient interested developers to work on an init replacement
- pjmlp 9y agoLong time ago there was an attempt to build an userland in Ada, sadly they only managed to get an handful of developers.
- jononor 9y agosystemd has had close to 1000 contributors now (as recorded by git), with 30-40 active per month. Higher than I imagined. https://www.openhub.net/p/systemd https://www.openhub.net/p/systemd
- sedachv 9y agoGNU Shepherd is an init replacement written in Guile, a dialect of Scheme. Guix ships with GNU Shepherd. Anything that runs in place of init should in principle be small, and hence not too difficult to write and maintain. So you are right that it is not any technical issues, but rather the disinterest of system software programmers in anything other than C, and the disinterest of language X programmers in system software, that is the main culprit. https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/ https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/ https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/guix.html https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/guix.html