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Can I write tools that use PowerShell and .NET objects in non-.NET languages, like Python or Perl (using the C implementations, not a .net python)? Like, is there an API that I can implement to interact to implement PowerShell-like "native" tools?

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It's not the most efficient way to do it, but if you just want to get it done, Powershell has had e.g. ConvertTo-Json since version 3, I think? You can serialize pretty much anything at that point, and just hand that off to your target language.

If you're talking an FFI though, not so much, I think.

use pythonnet to interact with .NET dlls from CPython:

https://github.com/pythonnet/pythonnet

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