@mirabilos It's not all bad imo. I strongly oppose the "rewrite everything in rust" paired with a "oh shiny new stuff" but there are some nice applications written in Rust out there. It's not as architecture-independent as C, granted. The need for C will also never disappear as you can't go more low-level than C (except ASM).
@gamingonlinux systemd suffers from feature creep and alternatives should be explored. Why does my init also need to start ntp or dns resolving? It doesn't, that's why I'm running sysvinit and openrc. Linux should be about choice, except it doesn't feel like a choice when it come to initsystems. Very few distros exist that even provide an alternative.