obarun's comments

ISC allow you to make practically what you want and can be mixed with practically what you want too where GPL is more restrictive

>Show me an alternative to systemd that matches its functionality and consistency.

https://skarnet.org/software/s6 https://skarnet.org/software/s6-rc

> It isn't modular just because it's divided into modules.

https://skarnet.org/software Real modularity, each API are completely independent from each other

>For one, have you ever written an unit file? It literally takes 3 minutes.

http://web.obarun.org/software/66/frontend.html Simple frontend file to declare a service, take 3 minutes to write it too.

>but the only people doing the work are Systemd

the fact is that some really good dev make the works but nobody care and nobody wants to give real supports(i mean financial supports) to do the thing in the right way.

Is systemd portable? can you build it with musl? that it works on BSD? s6 and 66 do.

>systemd was promised as a way of shaving a few seconds off of boots

s6 do the same without socket activation(fallacious arguments to sell systemd)

Give to s6 and 66 dev the same financial potential of systemd and you will get a real init and service manager in the real *nix philosophy with well designed code.

Actually only one distro show s6 + 66 in action but make it very well