[friendzis]

And then I remember that Windows PowerShell does (attempts to, to be fair) exactly that

[stinos]

attempts to, to be fair

Output of ls in PS is an Array of objects (DirectoryInfo or FileInfo instances). How is that merely an attempt?

[friendzis]

While PS-native stuff yield objects, not all pre-PS utilities/builtins are overriden or have interface for PS and output old fashioned text blob, which is not automagically parsed in any way by PS. My comment was system-level, not utility-level.