alt Hacker NewsThat's really not such a weird choice. The systemd library is pervasive and compatible.
The weird bit is the analysis[1], which complains that a Go binary doesn't run on Alpine Linux, a system which is explicitly and intentionally (also IMHO ridiculously, but that's editorializing) binary-incompatible with the stable Linux C ABI as it's existed for almost three decades now. It's really no more "Linux" than is Android, for the same reason, and you don't complain that your Go binaries don't run there.
[1] I'll just skip without explaination how weird it was to see the author complain that the build breaks because they can't get systemd log output on... a mac.
The macOS bit wasn’t about trying to get systemd logs on mac. The issue was that the build itself fails because libsystemd-dev isn’t available. We (naively) expected journal support to be something that we can detect and handle at runtime.