Your application code should not be dealing with PID files, log redirection or other low-level concerns.

Let your operating system handle daemons, respawning and logging while you focus on your application features and users.

This makes developing a modern daemon much easier. The init config file is what you use to configure logging, run as a user, and many other things you previous did in code. You tweak a few init config settings; your code focuses less on housekeeping and more on functionality.

Less system administration, easier debugging, simpler code, all because you leveraged the init system to do the work for you!

Init Freedom is about restoring a sane approach to PID1 that respects portability, diversity and freedom of choice.