[slver]

PowerShell solved this problem by outputting easy to map objects instead of just plain text. Unfortunately they made it a bit more verbose than it could've been, and the industry didn’t recognize the potential, so it remained a niche product.

I still love PowerShell.

[GlennS]

I love PowerShell too, but I think the real barrier to adoption is that it's just too slow.

[slver]

The concept of object output isn't slow. PS is mostly slow because it's based on .NET and they didn't bother optimizing it.