It's better now that Windows has gone all-in on Powershell. Now, I said "better" but still not "good" as the powershell APIs for many critical windows features

It's better now that Windows has gone all-in on Powershell. Now, I said "better" but still not "good" as the powershell APIs for many critical windows features are a nightmarish trashfire of multiple buggy overlapping implementations of the same thing, but they exist. It is now very possible to admin a Windows box from the console. And as much as Powershell is a bad programming language, it's a very powerful and expressive one that bridges the gap between shell scripting and full-fledged programming.