I'm a big fan of how PowerShell passes objects. But without a common runtime the closest you could really get to that in Unix would be to pass JSON or XML abou

I'm a big fan of how PowerShell passes objects. But without a common runtime the closest you could really get to that in Unix would be to pass JSON or XML about, and have every program have a "pipe" mode that accepted that as input. Which seems like an awful lot of work and unlikely to get the kind of buy in you'd need to make it work widely.