I really like bash. I tried to like powershell. Nushell feels much better than powershell to me as it's not overspecialized for integration with .Net and it get

I really like bash. I tried to like powershell. Nushell feels much better than powershell to me as it's not overspecialized for integration with .Net and it gets many of the shell niceties right out of the box (vi mode, simultaneous history and file autocomplete). I think there will always be a place for something like bash pipelines, where the handoff is just a bunch of bits. Some work is all about discovering the structure of your data: you can't have tools that already know it. But that's not the majority of work these days. Having the handoff be just bits is an elegant solution to the tower-of-babel problem, but it would probably be ok if we spent more time in structured-mode and only leaned into that solution when it was specifically called for. The problem is that there's no intrinsic structure to data, just useful fictions. This makes structured-mode necessarily opinionated, which means that the ecosystem will always be fragmented: bash and zsh are friends. Powershell and nushell are rivals.