“I have an init system. It does a lot of what systemd does.”
“What advantages does it have over other init systems?”
“It’s not called systemd!”
“SOLD!”
Haha - I think that might be some of the hype, but I do think that there’s merit in the fact that they used a language that’s proven (Scheme/Guile) and easy to parse unlike the custom configuration formats that systemd chose. There’s a lot of power there. I welcome the coming init wars, competition is good.
If anyone wants to read: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://9front.org/press/sdtimes/sdtimes.log