I don't see how it's better. You can send objects over pipes if you want to (in, for example, json format). If PowerShell wants to be the bloated Word-equivale

I don't see how it's better. You can send objects over pipes if you want to (in, for example, json format). If PowerShell wants to be the bloated Word-equivalent of shells that's certainly a design objective. I'm sure someone will eventually do a Mono or systemd of it, saving UNIX from the tragedy of not working like Windows. But it smells of Taligent.