It is similar! Years ago I first tried websocketd, which was explicitly inspired by initd, and wished I could build applications on top of something like it. Plane is sort of a natural evolution of that.
Of course, one of the big differences with initd is that it runs on a cluster of machines instead of locally, which turns out to be most of the difficulty.
Of course, one of the big differences with initd is that it runs on a cluster of machines instead of locally, which turns out to be most of the difficulty.
http://websocketd.com/