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The philosophy section is the most important aspect, in my opinion, because I want to know why I should switch. In other words, show me a better future, and then I'm more likely to try it out.

> Philosophy

> Nu draws inspiration from projects like PowerShell, functional programming languages, and modern CLI tools. Rather than thinking of files and services as raw streams of text, Nu looks at each input as something with structure. For example, when you list the contents of a directory, what you get back is a table of rows, where each row represents an item in that directory. These values can be piped through a series of steps, in a series of commands called a 'pipeline'.




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