Well, I used systemd as an init system on a device I was working on (based on imx.6) because it turned out systemd was faster than sysVinit. And from my experie

Well, I used systemd as an init system on a device I was working on (based on imx.6) because it turned out systemd was faster than sysVinit. And from my experience it is very popular now oj embedded systems.