A lot of us sysadmins are or were developers too, it's a lot easier to maintain a system you understand. Plus if it can be automated in code, it will be automated in code, we're lazy like that (well some of us, if I have to do the same thing more than once, I'm not doing it by hand the second time) and end up writing non-trivial amounts of code. Nearly every piece of software I've ever seen has bugs, and what do you mean I can't run the software without xyz framework, abc runtime and libraries a-zzz being installed on the system. Where are the performance specs? Resource reuse? Documentation? Focus on deployment/maintainability? Security audits? (I'm only mostly sarcastic)
Shell scripting is still amazing... when you use it for shell scripting.
Now I do like systemd more, but not because init scripts are bad, I just prefer how it does things, and can always call out to a script if need be anyways. And I suppose making it more friendly to developers is going to make my life easier too, the atrocities I've seen written in every language imaginable to replicate something that would be trivial to do in an init script. I didn't think it was possible (well possible yes, but why, WHY) to essentially rewrite the userland tools and the job of the init system in (very poorly written) php, but I've been proven wrong. Even something like forever for nodejs doesn't really have a need to exist.
But point is developers and sysadmins are both more than capable of writing shit code, lacking tests, code reuse, and all the rest of the best practices. At least we have to deal with the fallout from our code ourselves ;)
Shell scripting is still amazing... when you use it for shell scripting.
Now I do like systemd more, but not because init scripts are bad, I just prefer how it does things, and can always call out to a script if need be anyways. And I suppose making it more friendly to developers is going to make my life easier too, the atrocities I've seen written in every language imaginable to replicate something that would be trivial to do in an init script. I didn't think it was possible (well possible yes, but why, WHY) to essentially rewrite the userland tools and the job of the init system in (very poorly written) php, but I've been proven wrong. Even something like forever for nodejs doesn't really have a need to exist.
But point is developers and sysadmins are both more than capable of writing shit code, lacking tests, code reuse, and all the rest of the best practices. At least we have to deal with the fallout from our code ourselves ;)