oh, nice. This also ties into my desire for pants to present it’s progress better, like how many tasks are there to run, and how long do we expect them to take etc.. just the number of tests it’s going through would be a huge boon when running stuff like

pants test ::

when you have no idea of how far along it’s gone when for instance.

exposing the queue length of this semaphore (for the local and remote runners) would get you “number of processes waiting to run”: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/blob/be5836a7f04a01cee16ab9b33dcc33c304900659/src/rust/engine/process_execution/src/bounded.rs#L165

I would loooove if we could hire a UI person to redo the whole console UI 🙂