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I mean... isn't that what is already happening, the shell is the scripting language, and compiled binaries that mung text are the library functions. Unix/Unixl

• dkresge 4y ago
  Moreover, something rarely mentioned, multiple processes and pipes can give you some free parallelism courtesy of the scheduler.
• glhaynes 4y ago
  The downer is that every function call in this system has only string parameters.
  • unsafecast 4y ago
    That's because this is the way they thought back then. You can trivially pass json data between processes and make a coherent structured system. Nobody does it though.
    • a_conservative 4y ago
      jq has >20k stars on GitHub. I use it mostly for little cli utilities, so maybe it isn’t an exact refutation of your claim. [0] https://github.com/stedolan/jq https://github.com/stedolan/jq
      • unsafecast 4y ago
        Sure, but I think the bigger problem is complete systems. Look at a usual Linux box. It has a bunch of files, all with their custom syntax, and you parse them with error-prone shell commands. If everything used json, everyone's lives would've been so much better. Independent programs using json is a step in the right direction though.