>Imagine a future where we're piping structured objects between programs, scripting in a modern language
May not be quite the same as what you mean, but check out osh (a Python tool, a sort of shell, for doing distributed command-line and scripting operations on clusters of nodes). I had blogged about osh briefly here:
the creator of osh, Jack Orenstein, who was then at Akiban (the company behind the Akiban product), commented on that post, giving more details about both osh and what it was used for at Archivas, later acquired by Hitachi Data Systems, and also said something about Akiban. And now I just saw by googling that it (Akiban) was acquired by FoundationDB.
May not be quite the same as what you mean, but check out osh (a Python tool, a sort of shell, for doing distributed command-line and scripting operations on clusters of nodes). I had blogged about osh briefly here:
Some ways of doing UNIX-style pipes in Python:
https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2011/09/some-ways-of-doing-unix-s...
Interestingly, later on, when I blogged this:
Akiban, new database, supported by SQLAlchemy:
https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2012/10/akiban-new-database-suppo...
the creator of osh, Jack Orenstein, who was then at Akiban (the company behind the Akiban product), commented on that post, giving more details about both osh and what it was used for at Archivas, later acquired by Hitachi Data Systems, and also said something about Akiban. And now I just saw by googling that it (Akiban) was acquired by FoundationDB.