Systemd, the de facto standard init system on Linux, has just taken the first step to support Rust programs, in addition to the standard C.

Systemd was originally created as an init system, called by the kernel during startup, and responsible for launching and managing other services and processes. Systemd was created by Lennart Poettering and Kay Sievers while working for Red Hat, with the goal to modernize and improve how Linux initialization works.

Over the years, however, systemd has grown far beyond a simple init system and now manages a number of various parts of a Linux system, as described on the site’s home page :

systemd is a suite of basic building blocks for a Linux system.…