You know it is so funny that you're mentioning this. I completely agree. It's to the point where I've been toying around with creating my own shell and faking

You know it is so funny that you're mentioning this. I completely agree. It's to the point where I've been toying around with creating my own shell and faking typed IO streams via Postgres+DSL. It's tricky though. Sometimes I want pub-sub, other times I want event stream. Sometimes I want crash-on-failure, other times I don't. There is this problem in software that I can't really word precisely, but the closest I can come is "do it like this, except these cases here, except-except those cases there" and these things kinda keep stacking up until you have a program that has too much knowledge baked into it. Take, for example, emoji TLDs. Because emojis aren't consistent across platforms they can get coerced into different types. I didn't know that when I bought and used a couple emoji domains. When someone tried to click on a link in Android and was met with a 404, I was so confused. I wasn't even seeing the request come into nginx! After I figured it out, I realized that emoji domains won't work. The underlying assumption of TLDs is that there is one, and only one, way of encoding something and that these things aren't coerced. That assumption is wrong.