That isnt the mascot , that IS the wizard
You expected your content to be downloaded by
curlIt was me,
Invoke-WebRequest!Powershell is actually powerful. You can write full on WPF grafical user interfaces with it.
If powershell wasn’t a Microsoft product I think it could easily outclass any shell currently available. The concept of command output typing is hand down one of the best features of any shell I’ve tried.
nushell is a thing, and basically has all the fun powershell features like a type system, but a more Unixy presentation. I’ve not used it, so don’t know if it’s actually any good, but it at least exists.
Apples to oranges, powershell is windows exposing most of COM, WMI and .NET object models while improving on the previous options with CScript and VBscript, as those are older than .NET.
Why are we comparing it with UNIX/Linux shells is beyond me.
You say that like it’s a bad thing. Having access to all those things by writing a few descriptive words and a great help system (looking at you, linux commands) is awesome.
How is it being a Microsoft product a bad thing? It’s fully open source and available on both Linux and Windows;
also nushellMicrosoft has literally invented EEE (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish).
They didn’t embrace anything with PowerShell, it’s just a Microsoft product.
I was just pointing out why people are suspicious of MS.
I like the typing, but I hate the syntax and verbosity of it. It feels very complex to write.
nushell is taking the same route I think
I’m confused by this command output typing you’re talking about, and I’m not sure if I found the correct thing. Are you talking about the Write-Host and Write-Output?
I’d assume they mean that command return values can have types besides string. In classical shells, all data is stringy, so every command has to re-interpret everything. PowerShell can actually use data types.
As far as I understand it it’s like stdout and stderr but with some additional ones for debuging, logging, etc…
Of course you can, but why would you?
It was my stepping stone from being an IT Support tech to a traditional Software Developer. Yes it’s not as easy to work with as a traditional language or as fast but it’s more flexible and often less verbose.
Reminder that you can use any CLI interpreter as your shell. IPython, Pry, PHP, or whatever you want.
ghci
kinda like qbasic
the only thing i know about powershell is that the linux binary is named pwsh which i learned the hard way after writing pow and then accidentally tab completing poweroff and shutting down my pc
in fairness that might’ve been a sign
thank you! i’ve literally felt the same ever since powershell introduced the icon
