systemd is good, but I think it came too soon. A lot of the comments here are about memory safe languages are spot on. systemd was written with two major assump

systemd is good, but I think it came too soon. A lot of the comments here are about memory safe languages are spot on. systemd was written with two major assumptions in mind: 1. Linux system complexity has exploded and needs a top-to-bottom rewrite 2. It's safe to do such a rewrite in C Since the systemd project, I'd say #1 has been largely affirmed. I like the result of systemd because it provides uniform tooling around complex Linux systems. I'd also say the tide has shifted against #2 in a big way, there's much greater skepticism that anyone on this planet (short of djb or a few others) can write safe C, let alone safe C with concurrency and side effects. This is really unfortunate, because it probably means the solution is to rewrite systemd in a memory safe language, and that's a huge undertaking.