It seems odd that any paper on this topic (I read both TFA and the paper it references) would not mention PowerShell once, nor the broader issue of how the Unix shell uses text streams as the only intermediary format between pipeline components.

As someone who moved to Linux full-time, professionally and personally, there are times I do miss PowerShell. Never used anything like it. To tab complete "apis" and complex data structures was very enjoyable

For better or worse, it's what I and my team used to manage a decent size VMware cluster of a hundred hosts and 6k VMs ( I think, it was a very long time ago)

Wouldn't go back, but there are aspects I miss

There are also other typed shells that appeal to yourself which aren't Powershell but do have behaviours similar to Powershell and which do play a lot more nicely with the wider Linux / UNIX ecosystem:

- murex https://github.com/lmorg/murex

- Elvish https://github.com/elves/elvish

- NGS https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs

I'm the maintainer of murex so happy to answer any questions on that shell here. I do know the the maintainers of Elvish and NGS pop on HN too.