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> demands of modern shell scripts cannot be met by typical shell philosophy

That. Pipes and unstructured binary data isn't compositional enough, making the divide between the kinds of things you can express in the language you use to write a stage in a pipeline and the kinds of things you can express by building a pipeline too large.

A single tool to parse JSON and pipe it? That's Unix too.

you made me think a possible corollary (?) question would be if the json people don't perfectly overlap with the unix people.