> Imagine an alternate universe where a pipe was a stream of bytes and a MIME type. Isn't this powershell? > I'm nearly certain such a change would require lo

> Imagine an alternate universe where a pipe was a stream of bytes and a MIME type. Isn't this powershell? > I'm nearly certain such a change would require low-level, POSIX-breaking changes. That seems to be the trade off, breaking with posix compatibility for nicer abstractions.