If the design space is so huge, how about giving some examples, instead of insulting people who disagree with you? Surely you'll be able to do so, while satisfy

If the design space is so huge, how about giving some examples, instead of insulting people who disagree with you? Surely you'll be able to do so, while satisfying the requirements I listed? Because Powershell doesn't satisfy them. You are not going to save Powershell object stream yo CI output or provisioner logs. You are not going to send objects over SSH, or over web console, or over BMC-emulated serial port. In all of those cases it's going to be good old stream of characters, with the occasional control sequence from more advanced programs. You can have whatever rich datatypes inside your application (powrshell isn't the first, I remember reading about LISP shells back in 2000's), but at some moment you have to talk with other systems, and that's when you will have to switch to character streams. (that said, the current escape sequences could use lots of improvement. That's not going to change fundamental concept though)