Yet Another Init System? Meet Nitro, a Fresh Take on Process Supervision
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A new init system called Nitro is introduced, but the community is skeptical about its necessity and potential to improve upon existing solutions.
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I hate systemd, but at least the services files are sane. This is going to suffer the same shit tuat init.d did, a billion scripts with the same logic. Why!?