« better specs for jobs dependencies, timeouts, resource policies and retries without hacky wrappers and boilerplate » This is what I miss. There's a strang

« better specs for jobs dependencies, timeouts, resource policies and retries without hacky wrappers and boilerplate » This is what I miss. There's a strange gap in traditional Unix there, compared to other time-sharing systems. I have a feeling that if Unix had had a primitive job manager then by 1990 there would have been a pile of Gnu extensions and by 2000 there would have been people reinventing it, and GUIs that looked a bit like what you get to monitor print queues.