> For someone reasonably fluent in bash/zsh (and Python, etc.) already, could someone give examples of where they might use PowerShell? My experience as a regu

> For someone reasonably fluent in bash/zsh (and Python, etc.) already, could someone give examples of where they might use PowerShell? My experience as a regular bash user and very occasional PowerShell one has been that I can write a script much more quickly using bash, but it has a better chance of getting things right first time using PowerShell. Generally this is because of simple things like the fact that arguments are passed in proper data structures rather than as quoted strings. So I like PowerShell, it's effective and pragmatic and I think it's potentially good for scripts you want to put in production or redistribute. There are just a few problems - * As an occasional user I find it all a little hard to keep track of, with liberal use of aliases and abbreviations (obviously intended to simplify things, but they mean reading examples is more complicated) and a less regular syntax around things like piping * I believe that pipelines will (sometimes? often? always?) pass an in-memory structure rather than streaming - this can make it a lot less scalable (would appreciate correction on this but I do recall running out of memory on things I wouldn't have had a problem with in a Unix shell) * The fact that it isn't "available by default" does matter, really - after all this is one of the biggest reasons one writes a shell script in the first place, rather than using some other language