I think a lot of the hate on powershell is that it chooses to do things very similar to existing languages, but just different enough to confuse practitioners o

I think a lot of the hate on powershell is that it chooses to do things very similar to existing languages, but just different enough to confuse practitioners of anything else. Posh also suffers in its somewhat easy to invoke any .NET library, so people start comparing it to a more tooled programming language or something with more sane libraries, and the "ISE" is nowhere close to an IDE (why isnt powershell a first class citizen in visual studio! yes I know there are tools, they are not great.) Nonetheless, after a few years of working in sql server I have adopted more and more posh in my life because its simply the fastest way to get things done if you are doing windows server management. I usually find myself on one of these two places if I am looking for something: Mike Fal (SQL Server focus, he is great) http://www.mikefal.net/ http://www.mikefal.net/ Hey Scripting Guy! https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/ https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/ edit: forgot to mention that MSFT helped to cause problems by massive changing how the language did things over time(usually for the better), so ps1 vs ps4 is crazy different, another reason to be annoyed because which version comes with which product is a fun skew to deal with (thanks sqlps having ps2.0!)