> I appreciate what projects like Nushell and Murex are trying to address, but having a saner scripting language and passing structured data in pipelines is not

> I appreciate what projects like Nushell and Murex are trying to address, but having a saner scripting language and passing structured data in pipelines is not worth the drawbacks for me. Murex doesn’t change any of coreutils. With murex can use the command line as dumb byte streams with the standard GNU / BSD utils if you want…and in fact I do just this myself. What Murex offers is an abstraction on top that allows you to add type hints to those byte streams so you can do fancier stuff with it if you wanted. Think of it like what Typescript does for JavaScript. You have access to all the same POSIX utilities and additional type aware controls on top but it’s completely optional if you want to use those type aware controls (personally, I think once you do, you wouldn’t go back, but I respect people’s personal preferences).