So here's this new kid, systemd, mindlessly gobbling os functionality and annoying the elders with binary log files.

And then the sleeping giants wake, Lisp and Emacs.

62-year old Lisp, based on Lambda calculus from 80-90 years ago, pretty much pioneered much of computer science.

And 44-year old emacs and 35-year old elisp, they pioneered subsuming.

I mean, there's a church of emacs.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Richard_...

by the way, emacs has already been used as init:

http://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux....