This is my argument. Do init. Don't pull in literally everything else because you think you know better, like system logging.

APIs generally don’t need many alternatives, only implementations do. There’s no reason devs should be trying to provide init files in multiple formats. If the systemd team actually did something bad, then people could just make a different implementation of systemd without requiring a different format for init files. Arguing for more init systems is like saying we need more APIs to compete with both Wayland and X11, instead of just talking about implementations of those protocols.

Because that's all the Fediverse contains.

In this thread, there's people reposting "never slop" doodles, performing ingroup loyalty over thought-terminating cliches. All my efforts to engage with that have made clear they mean never use any AI for anything ever, and then they repeat their chants as empty signalling, or use one of their made-up slurs for anyone who's not virulently against all forms of spicy autocomplete.

There's entire communities for that attitude. Entire instances. It's immediately the dominant tone in any discussion of companies using AI for literally anything. Even if the AI content was removed before a game launched, the fact it was there has indelibly stained the publisher's whole catalog, past and future.

Meanwhile the opposition to that is just... would you relax, please? There's no "boosters" on this service. Nobody's snorting a line and raving about basilisks. Vanishingly few dinguses have sneered 'the future is now, old man!' and they find zero support. Even measured responses to shrill absolutes begin 'now I hate AI as much as the next person, buuut.'

Pro-AI, on Lemmy, means having anything short of an absolute negative assertion, on questions like 'can generated images ever be art.' Everyone suddenly developed a crystal clear philosophy on the nature of beauty. Those philosophies don't agree, but the people do, which is... indicative. Especially when you discuss those claims seriously, and any illustrative counterexamples are treated as a personal attack.

Recently someone repeated claims that LLMs cause instant cognitive impairment, and I pointed to the people behind the study begging people to stop saying that. Do you want to guess how that went? It wasn't a rational exchange of comparably reasonable positions... and the little numbers showed the crowd was not on my side. Or the researchers' side. They were perfectly happy with their tabloid narrative, thank you very much.

Not Op but..

OO languages have classes with inheritance based polymorphism. I don't see struts + methods as enough to qualify.

Functional languages have functions which can take functions as arguments and function composition as first class features.