> A haphazard bunch of shell scripts is not much better than a monolithic binary If know shell scripts you can read and adapt the former. You can keep the stat

> A haphazard bunch of shell scripts is not much better than a monolithic binary If know shell scripts you can read and adapt the former. You can keep the state in vcs without needing a compile artifact or a compiler. How much work is it to add a bespoke feature to systemd? It's a tradeoff for sure, but let's not pretend simplicity has no benefits. And knowledge of Cron transfers to the bsds.