I really wish nmap has a proper API, or programmatically-friendly pipeline output. All of its myriad output formats are just "skins" on top of the pretty-print

I really wish nmap has a proper API, or programmatically-friendly pipeline output. All of its myriad output formats are just "skins" on top of the pretty-printed textual UI output, making nmap very difficult to use as a component of a larger system.