Re: A Critique of Shepherd Design

[Martin]

> On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 17:33:57 +0000
> raid5atemyhomework <raid5atemyhomework@protonmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The Shepherd language for describing actions on Shepherd daemons is a
> > Turing-complete Guile language.  Turing completeness runs afoul of
> > the Principle of Least Power.
> Erlang is turing complete and yet it is famously excellent at managing
> services in a robust way.
Ironically nowadays almost everything is Turing complete: 
https://www.gwern.net/Turing-complete

Lack of Turing-completeness by design can be a real feature, i.e. 
bitcoin script is a perfect practical example of it.