• Laser@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    People are hating on Powershell way too much. I don’t like its syntax really but it has a messy better approach to handling data in the terminal. We have nu and elvish nowadays but MS was really early with the concept and I think they learned from the shortcomings of POSIX compatible shells.

    • Laurel Raven@lemmy.zip
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      14 hours ago

      I really can’t stress enough how much power and flexibility comes with an object oriented shell, especially with the dotnet type system behind it.

      I think most people who hate it just do so either because it came from Microsoft (which… Yeah, that’s understandable), or because it’s a different way of thinking about it (and/or they spent a lot of effort learning how to parse data from strings effectively and hate that it’s made easier?). But love or hate it, it is effective and powerful, and I find myself missing that when working with bash.