alt Hacker News>But I guess you're saying the ability to trigger the systemd timer off-schedule is the difference? Yeah, it's annoying with cron to have to temporarily set the trigger two minutes into the future. :-P
>Not sure adding that feature justifies a complete rewrite, but certainly a nice addition.
If there is a feature that justifies using a completely different tool it's obviously this one.
Are you making the assumption that it's impossible to add that feature to cron?
You should not see a missing killer feature and go directly to the conclusion of rewriting.
Sure, greenfield is fun. So there's that.