> There's no actual reason that the terminal couldn't interpret structured data into text for us so that, in the world of intercommunicating processes on the ot

> There's no actual reason that the terminal couldn't interpret structured data into text for us so that, in the world of intercommunicating processes on the other side of the TTY, everything is well-structured, semantically comprehensible data. I think you just described PowerShell (or things that follow down the same path, e.g. TermKit) ;-)