Though it's pretty immature, nushell has a similar idea, with its own internal data model being streams of structured, typed data: https://www.nushell.sh/ https

Though it's pretty immature, nushell has a similar idea, with its own internal data model being streams of structured, typed data: https://www.nushell.sh/ https://www.nushell.sh/ And back to nix commands, libxo is used by a chunk of the FreeBSD base tools to offer output in JSON, amongst other things: https://github.com/Juniper/libxo https://github.com/Juniper/libxo -% ps --libxo=json,pretty { "process-information": { "process": [ { "pid": "52455", "terminal-name": "5 ", "state": "Is", "cpu-time": "0:00.00", "command": "-sh (sh)" }, -% uptime --libxo=json,pretty { "uptime-information": { "time-of-day": " 8:34p.m.", "uptime": 1730360, "days": 20, Be nice to see more tools converted.