Curl to python is actually what happens in the Linux install script [0]. To your point, all cmdlets adhere to an interface so they always return and receive ty

Curl to python is actually what happens in the Linux install script [0]. To your point, all cmdlets adhere to an interface so they always return and receive typed data. They don’t really need to know anything except that they’re receiving or giving powershell objects. Non built in commands (native binaries) just pipe a stream of bytes just like any posix shell.