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I wonder if programs on the shell should start emitting JSON objects now? Often times, the text output, separated by a white space, seems too limiting. Where m

• SubjectToChange 6y ago
  There are tools like jo[1] which will encode output of shell commands into json. As for native shell support for structured data, Powershell is probably the best implementation. In Powershell objects can be piped to other commands and they can be serialized to json, xml, csv, and even html [2] [1] https://github.com/jpmens/jo https://github.com/jpmens/jo [2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.utility/?view=powershell-7.1 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...
• beny23 6y ago
  I’d be a bit sceptical about JSON everywhere as it would mean throwing out all the shell tools and everything having to parse JSON which seems overkill.