"modern software requires modern solutions"
The difficulty I have about accepting this argument as favouring systemd is that I don't see systemd as modern.
I take this as a good principle of modern design: "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
On this basis systemd fails to qualify as a piece of modern design. It may, by definition, be newer than that which it sets out to displace but new does not equal modern. In fact I see it as a throwback to the sort of messy complexities that the modernism of Unix set out to replace.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
