Basically DJB did this in the 90s with daemontools, which many of us now use a revamped fork of called &#x27;runit&#x27;.<p>You still write shell scripts, but you also still have control.<p>Again, I&#x27;m not entirely opposed to the ideas behind systemd, but I am opposed to basically every fucking Linux server distribution breaking because of things people are doing for the desktop, which began with upstart.<p>There is also no love left to lose between me and sysV init scripts.