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precursor: powershell

stdin and stdout have always been the gateway between programs on linux. powershell paved the way with typed buffer streams (outside of research circles). phext expands upon this idea - allowing programs to communicate between each other using arbitrarily large context buffers. if you need to exchange a lot of typed data, phext is more generic than json!

if you've ever looked into the abyss that is a configure or make command, you know what i mean. i've looked deeply into that abyss, and phext is what came back out.