I wonder if programs on the shell should start emitting JSON objects now?

Often times, the text output, separated by a white space, seems too limiting. Where maybe parsing structured JSON objects might be easier to manipulate.

As for native shell support for structured data, Powershell is probably the best implementation. In Powershell objects can be piped to other commands and they can be serialized to json, xml, csv, and even html [2]

[1] https://github.com/jpmens/jo [2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...