Yes, but if you see my edit, even with GOMAXPROCS=1, you are still constrained to the syscall.ForkExec API, which severely limits the usefulness of an init program.  Its entire purpose is to start processes in different states (i.e. with different UID, etc.)<p>Not sure what you mean by 2).  If you&#x27;re suggesting polling, then that sucks, because one important feature of an init system is to restart processes immediately.<p>All in all my point is that Go is a very poor language for this... worse than Python (which I also tried and ended up using).  I think it&#x27;s great that the author is experimenting though -- I think that&#x27;s the only way to make these issues clear.