Re: "It solves a problem that people have."
"there are multiple cases where crashing is in fact preferable to continued running of a service. "
Correct, subject to one major clarification/caveat.
Do you understand and accept that there is a difference between
* a controlled but unexpected daemon exit due to some unrecoverable condition e.g. unrecoverable resource exhaustion. Many people (often the "greybeard" people?) wouldn't call this a crash, especially if the reason for the exit could be logged for troubleshooting and recovery.
* an uncontrolled daemon crash of the kind that used to lead to a core dump (for whatever reason).
Does it matter that your post makes no distintion between the two?
"naively idealistic on what is truly achievable in the real world."
Well behaved computer-based systems have been achievable for decades, but have become unfashionable, especially since uncontrolled system failure became widely acceptable. Discuss...
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