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Elvish, a new Unix shell

Via lobste.rs, the Elvish shell:

Pipelines in Elvish can carry structured data, not just text. You can stream lists, maps and even functions through the pipeline.

Not too long ago I was thinking that shells should bring in high level language features and pipes should be matched with data types. It sounds promising.

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