Hmm, doesn't Microsoft's PowerShell do this? (Chain programs together, where the transport is flattened C# objects). It's a cool idea. Though with vanilla text

Hmm, doesn't Microsoft's PowerShell do this? (Chain programs together, where the transport is flattened C# objects). It's a cool idea. Though with vanilla text you can work with partial output (imagine having to buffer something huge and useless until some marshaling layer coughs up the whole object -- with text, you don't always need to wait for everything to come across to start processing).