I hope systemd doesn't taint us all for more intelligent init systems. RC scripts do have their drawbacks. If I were choosing a "most interesting alternative t

I hope systemd doesn't taint us all for more intelligent init systems. RC scripts do have their drawbacks. If I were choosing a "most interesting alternative to systemd and classic init" award, it'd go to GNU Shepherd which is the init system of GUIX as well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guix_System_Distribution https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guix_System_Distribution All the talk about BSD and launchd has me thinking Shepherd might be on to something. Launchd is XMLed up from here to Sunday, whereas Shepherd can have all the benefits of Scheme's S-EXPRs being tree structures while also having a great scripting language (Scheme) at your disposal.