Even modern mental health care has difficulty helping people to achieve complete recovery from having programmed in Perl.
This one is shiny and new! /s
This one seems to be tied to systemd...
Only for the journal and hostname functionalities, it should work fine for everything else without systemd.
... and systemd timedated and systemd's idiosyncratic process #1 API. Its own doco also states that it targets systemd and does not implement use of other APIs.