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Unix style command line where "everything" is text...

I thought that was a good idea? Why isn't it so? What should be the alternative?

Having some structure like power shell would be really nice.

Oilshell probably a better fit. Also a guy putting json in most commands.

i love and use fish, but it doesn't solve the problem of everything is text. it's not even a shell problem in my view but it's really a problem of what kind of data is piped from one command to the next. that's quite shell-agnostic

Fully possible to set login shell to powershell on Linux. Wouldn’t recommend it, but it’s an option.

Tools outputting JSON or, even better, anything that has stronger types than it.

`jc` is trying to parse some UNIX tools' output and turn it into JSON but that's a hack (though a very useful one).

We shouldn't still be parsing plain text in 2100. Tools must speak a common language.

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