I like these attempts at innovating the shell. Hardcore Unix users will say it is practically impossible to replace universal text streams and sh. But what if w

I like these attempts at innovating the shell. Hardcore Unix users will say it is practically impossible to replace universal text streams and sh. But what if we had said the same thing before Unix wasn’t a thing? Then we wouldn’t have come this far today. One advantage projects like Nushell and Crush have is that they have second-mover advantage after seeing what PowerShell didn’t get right. For instance whilst PowerShell is highly consistent, it’s also very verbose as a result (unless you tweak it to mimic bash with aliases and then you might as well use bash anyway). Another example is that, whilst the idea of objects in pipes is theoretically interesting, it creates a lot of complexity in creating meaningful pipes (it’s a lot faster to do xargs over a series of words rather than remembering how to do a for loop in pwsh). Maybe these people are striking the right balance with the flexibility of text and the rigour of tables / columns.