> so shitty as a programming language > doesn't look like anything else on Windows These are unrelated statements, not sure what you are getting at. Powershel

> so shitty as a programming language > doesn't look like anything else on Windows These are unrelated statements, not sure what you are getting at. Powershell is more than adequate to build one-liners, scripts, tools, and system automation. The syntax is kind of like C# and Perl had a baby. I'd say it stands up quite well against Bash, Perl, or unquestionably Batch. It's not without its warts, and I wouldn't want to build a large production app/service with it, but that's not what it was designed for nor what it claims to target. As I mentioned in my earlier comment, the interactive terminal environment itself has long been quite poor on Windows, and Powershell inherited that. Maybe that's what you mean by "interactive command line"? It's miles better today, though, for 2 reasons - 1. The default Win10 terminal is much improved (resizeable on-the-fly, copy/paste, line selection ... still a ways to go though) 2. Powershell itself now integrates PSReadLine out of the box, which brings all manner of features that were badly needed (undo/redo stack, syntax highlighting, a solid multi-line editing story, optional emacs mode, smarter navigation, it-just-works copy/paste, easily remappable keybindings, more).