Not necessarily anachronstic, considering the iXsysems CTO is Jordan Hubbard, who was previously at Apple as director of UNIX technology. Out with the old in with the less old?
Adopting Mach fresh in 2015 is certainly anachronistic.
It would be, except they're not adopting Mach.
How are you interpreting slides 5-7 then?
They're providing enough of a Mach-style interface that would allow them to use launchd. Basically, they're creating a compatibility layer in the kernel that allows it to pretend to be Mach.
Yep, it isn't that different than the linux sys call interface for running linux binaries.