Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

A few points:

* These folks seem clueless. The cite Eric Raymond. Enough said.

* I like classic init. I'm actually not a big fan of systemd, but I clearly recognize something needs to be replaced. The system needs to handle parallelism and dependencies. It's essentially the same problem in a hundred different domains (from luigi, to things like make/ant/paver/rake, to things like supervisord). Each systems seems to solve it worse than the one before it.

Personally, I'd actually go with forking make, since it's the one everyone knows and the most Unix-y, modify it to:

* Handle long-running task and task restarts

* Handle parallelism

* Clean up some of the issues around modularity



Consider applying for YC's Fall 2026 batch! Applications are open till July 27.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: