I actually invested some time a while back in building a nicer API for C# to invoke shell commands and process the results. The only downside IMO is the Rx libr

I actually invested some time a while back in building a nicer API for C# to invoke shell commands and process the results. The only downside IMO is the Rx library dependency for STDOUT/STDERR; I personally try to avoid depending on libraries which themselves have extra dependencies. Since I did this at work it belongs to my employer, so I can't currently publish it freely, but it's not part of our core product so they may be open to publishing it under MIT licence or similar at some stage. So it can be done, and has been done, but I guess most people are sufficiently happy with Powershell, Python, etc to not bother bridging the gap for C# too.