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So when did you leave Mac due to it using launchd?

• insertcredit 8y ago
  Launchd is nowhere near as bad as systemd and doesn't suffer from the latter feature creep.
  • icebraining 8y ago
    It's only a matter of degree, not philosophy, though. Launchd still accumulated the job of multiple services (initd, inetd, cron, incron, etc).
    • rleigh 8y ago
      The aggregation of these services are all understandable, because every one of them is about running a service. They might be triggered by different events (timer, network connection, at boot, manually), but other than that they are all doing pretty much the same thing: setting up and running a service. It isn't building in an NTP client, or a hostname resolver, or configuring your network, or taking over the system logging, or generating QR codes. It has a singular focus and design which makes conceptual sense. It's not a dumping ground for a disparate collection of poor quality alternatives to existing tools.