This is long overdue. PowerShell has long supported passing structured output (o...

account-5 · 2025-07-25T14:25:08 1753453508

I don't know, Nushell does a pretty good job.

procaryote · 2025-07-26T12:01:15 1753531275

This looks like the worst way to do it though

Why not

A: have a flag to the command telling it you want json output?

B: put the actual file descriptor in the environment variable rather than a flag to look for a hardcoded one?

grodriguez100 · 2025-07-27T07:03:22 1753599802

They actually did B:

“[…] if the environment variable STDDATA_FD is present or set to the descriptor to produce the JSON output on.”