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it doesn't say why. is it a BSD vs GNU thing?

• bcruddy 7y ago
  GNU switched to GPL v3 a while ago, I imagine this is a license thing
• nailer 7y ago
  It's a licensing thing yes. Current bash's are GPLv3, zsh is MIT. A pity they didn't make a structured output shell rather than traditional regex scraping but their main concern is compatibility, and zsh fits nicely.
  • sarah180 7y ago
    PowerShell is available for Linux & Mac now if you're looking for a structured, object-oriented shell on your Mac.
    • robin_reala 7y ago
      Doesn’t really fit into the posix compatibility bucket though. If that hadn’t had been a concern then I imagine fish is the most Mac-like shell out there.
      • nailer 7y ago
        I'm not sure how much POSIX matters anymore. Linux and MacOS determine 'standard' Unix behavior by their market share - I can understand disliking this though.
    • ChrisSD 7y ago
      The issue I have with Powershell is it's full on objected oriented. Personally I'd like something in between. Structured data where the "methods" are the utilities themselves.
      • nailer 7y ago
        Most of the time (though not always) the methods are the utilities. From https://github.com/mikemaccana/powershell-profile/#how-does-powershell-actually-differ-from-bash-day-to-day https://github.com/mikemaccana/powershell-profile/#how-does-... $results = @{} ls -recurse -filter "eslint-scope" | foreach { $file = "${PSItem}\package.json" $version = cat $file | convertfrom-json | select -ExpandProperty version $results.Add($file,$version) } echo $results | format-list You don't have to pipe to 'select', 'where' etc - if you send something to grep or select-string you'll be looking for regexs bash-style.