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That's an illusion. systemd is written in a language that is easier than shell to get right, and it's capable of things very few script-based init systems are
by andrewshadura 7y ago
That's an illusion.
systemd is written in a language that is easier than shell to get right, and it's capable of things very few script-based init systems are capable of, so in practice it's very rare that the code of the init system itself needs to be debugged. It's basically rock solid compared to sysv-rc.
- johnr2 7y ago> systemd is written in a language that is easier than shell to get right You might regard C as easier than shell to get right (that's debateable), but systemd has many many more lines of source code than sysvinit. Good luck debugging it at source code level on a remote system if that "very rare" event occurs.