> It's not either-or -- I'd think of it as LAYERED You can almost always represent one format inside of another. I can put JSON in a text system, or I can hold

> It's not either-or -- I'd think of it as LAYERED You can almost always represent one format inside of another. I can put JSON in a text system, or I can hold text in Protobuf. That doesn't mean that the systems are equivalently powerful, or that a text-oriented system supports structured data. > on the other hand, protobuf or Apache arrow not text, and you can't use grep on them directly This is kind of tautological, because of course you can't grep through them, because Unix and grep don't understand structure, because they're built around text. > IMO this is significantly different and better than say PowerShell, which is all about objects inside a VM Why?