&quot;a controversial topic&quot;<p>My observation: The &quot;discussion&quot; never seems to focus on systemd.  Instead it usually turns to comments on the former sysvinit system or other init systems.<p>That avoidance is perhaps something to ponder.  And maybe it&#x27;s why this author felt the urge to put some focus on systemd itself.<p>Love the quote from djb.  In sum, the best interface is no interface.  Parsing amounts to high margin for error and often an incredible nuisance.<p>In another thread today I wrote about the command line interface and &quot;expecting a reponse&quot;.  Truthfully, djb&#x27;s utilities that simply return an exit value and no output are the best ones I have ever used.<p>(It seems djb himself is a systemd user.  Not sure what if anything that means.)<p>Imagine if the information dissiminated via www was as easy to &quot;parse&quot; as text0.  Writing a simple &quot;web browser&quot; might be easy enough that programmers would not need to be paid to do it.