>Years ago, a project idea I was really interested for a while was to try to write a shell in Rust that works more like PowerShell.

So this whole conversation and a different one about python and it's behavior around `exit` vs `exit()` sent me down a rabbit hole of seeing if I could make the python interpreter have a "shell like" dsl for piping around data. It turns out you sort of can. I don't think you can defeat the REPL and make a function call like `echo "foo" "bar" "baz", but you can make it do this:

  netstat("-ln") | filter_by({"state":"ESTABLISHED"}) \
    | group_by(["local_port"]) | count_groups \
    | sort("count", descending=True) | limit(10)

And only ever parse plain text once on the input from netstat. For your amusement/horror I present "ShPy": https://gitlab.com/tpmoney/shpy