PowerShell is a .NET CLI and is more comparable to a JVM CLI (or the Python, Ruby, or Node REPLs) than it is to POSIX shells. Unix pipelines are for streaming

PowerShell is a .NET CLI and is more comparable to a JVM CLI (or the Python, Ruby, or Node REPLs) than it is to POSIX shells. Unix pipelines are for streaming data between processes using standard input and output. PowerShell pipelines are for sharing data between .NET classes called cmdlets and are more like chaining methods within a programming language. There are multiple programming languages with this functionality available in the *nix ecosystems. Working with the PowerShell "pipeline" is like working in a CLI/REPL for Python, Ruby, Node, not like working with Unix pipelines.