Show HN: A Unixy approach to WebSockets
> Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.I always hated that part of UNIX. It would be so much better if programs could handle data-structure streams instead. Having text streams causes every single program to implement ad-hoc parsers and serializers.I now use the command-line only for trivial one-time actions. For everything else I'll use a scripting language and forget about reading and writing text streams altogether.