Yes, I think Powershell is a step in the right direction. Not ideal of course, but where we should be going in general. At a minimum everything should be some s

Yes, I think Powershell is a step in the right direction. Not ideal of course, but where we should be going in general. At a minimum everything should be some sort of JSON-ish structure, if possible with support for common datatypes (strings, integers, floats, arrays, hashes, dates) It's terrible because while it was a good idea back in the day, today everything tries to get away from it as quickly as possible. Most any tool gets wrapped in a library that actually exposes a much more pleasant to use and safer interface. And the usage of text streams means everyone is reinventing the same wheel decade after decade, everyone in a slightly different manner and with different footguns.