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This reminds me of powershell

I've always been looking for anushell.

https://www.nushell.sh/book/

This goes against the philosophy explicitly mentioned in OP's article. E.g. avoid tabular formats.

This is systemd against init again. A powerful, but overreaching shell that becomes unreplaceable and bloated with concerns. In constrast, traditional *nix/GNU programs work well, and interact well, in every shell.

You see traditional Unix/GNU programs as working well and interacting will. I see a programming paradigm designed for six-char identifiers, not designed for whitespaces and punctuation in names, running in something that emulates a physical terminal that emulated a paper-based terminal. Terseness is there, but ergonomics of use for non-utter-experts could be improved.

I think that the shell paradigm could be so much better. If there's a momentum to make a change from that, I'll jump on the bandwagon. Any change is better than the current state of the shell.

Nushell has a 'to json' command. The tables are just nice to look at, it's not a data format they're expecting people to parse.