My question du jour: what daemon controlling system do you use?

I've been using daemontools for years, but don't like the timestamps or 
the way
directories are part of the UI (for command invocation). It is also no 
longer
maintained, though one point of view is that it doesn't need to be 
maintained.

Any preferences? Or systems to be avoided? I'm looking at runit - a 
daemontools
replacement. But there's also systemd and a pile of others.

John