Towards the idea that you can write them in another language, we in the Perl community ended up developing something of that nature[1]. It was originally inten

Towards the idea that you can write them in another language, we in the Perl community ended up developing something of that nature[1]. It was originally intended to make writing daemons in Perl easier by pulling out common functionality (double fork and such), and giving a consistent clean interface. One of the bigger requested things was the ability to use it as basically the entire init script ([2] for an example). [1] https://metacpan.org/pod/Daemon::Control https://metacpan.org/pod/Daemon::Control [2] http://hashbang.ca/2012/04/16/wherein-i-realize-the-bliss-of-writing-init-scripts-with-daemoncontrol http://hashbang.ca/2012/04/16/wherein-i-realize-the-bliss-of...