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Serious question -- not a flame war :) I honestly can't tell if this is sarcastic or not. I've been typing `curl -O http: ...` into command prompts for decades

Serious question -- not a flame war :) I honestly can't tell if this is sarcastic or not. I've been typing `curl -O http: ...` into command prompts for decades, and that Powershell incantation looks awfully unwieldy. In what way is it the happy path?

isoskeles 6y ago
Can't speak for that person, but I'm certain it was sarcasm.
fortran77 6y ago
Because it's the native Windows answer. There's no need to make Windows look like Unix. It's great (really!) the way it was designed.
- stnmtn 6y ago
  Do you feel like you are typing a lot more for simple things like this?
  - vips7L 6y ago
    Powershell comes installed with a lot of aliases. Invoke-WebRequest is just iwr
- feteru 6y ago
  Any good resources for using Powershell? Is there ever a reason not to use powershell? Coming from OSX it doesn't really make sense to me that there are two terminals installed by default, and I end up just using WSL ubuntu. Also I don't really know the commands so it feels crippled to me (no ssh (still? idk), not many tools, etc)
  - majkinetor 6y ago
    > Is there ever a reason not to use powershell? No, you should always use it. Its maybe a problem when ultimate performance is in question, but you can go long way with Powershell - I recently had a web service SOAP client implemented in it that did millions of requests in an hour using threads in less then 50 lines of code consuming less then 3% of server resources (running entire country in single day actually) > I end up just using WSL ubuntu You can have basiclly anthing working without WSL (except maybe docker correctly). > Also I don't really know the commands so it feels crippled to me (no ssh (still? idk), SSH is there. Learn commands along the way. You should def take a book like this one: https://www.manning.com/books/learn-windows-powershell-in-a-month-of-lunches-second-edition https://www.manning.com/books/learn-windows-powershell-in-a-... > not many tools, All usual tools, linux and windows, can be used. You have majority of them hosted on chocolatey.
majkinetor 6y ago
Like others have said, you would never type that long thing in Powershell, just `irm wttr.in` (even shorter then curl). People for some reason always show long stuff that is only used when you write scripts to share with others and not interactivelly - you could do the same with curl if you use --long-parameter-names but somehow people are biased when talking about posh like aliases and other things do not exist.

isoskeles 6y ago

Can't speak for that person, but I'm certain it was sarcasm.

fortran77 6y ago

Because it's the native Windows answer. There's no need to make Windows look like Unix. It's great (really!) the way it was designed.

stnmtn 6y ago
Do you feel like you are typing a lot more for simple things like this?
- vips7L 6y ago
  Powershell comes installed with a lot of aliases. Invoke-WebRequest is just iwr
feteru 6y ago
Any good resources for using Powershell? Is there ever a reason not to use powershell? Coming from OSX it doesn't really make sense to me that there are two terminals installed by default, and I end up just using WSL ubuntu. Also I don't really know the commands so it feels crippled to me (no ssh (still? idk), not many tools, etc)
- majkinetor 6y ago
  > Is there ever a reason not to use powershell? No, you should always use it. Its maybe a problem when ultimate performance is in question, but you can go long way with Powershell - I recently had a web service SOAP client implemented in it that did millions of requests in an hour using threads in less then 50 lines of code consuming less then 3% of server resources (running entire country in single day actually) > I end up just using WSL ubuntu You can have basiclly anthing working without WSL (except maybe docker correctly). > Also I don't really know the commands so it feels crippled to me (no ssh (still? idk), SSH is there. Learn commands along the way. You should def take a book like this one: https://www.manning.com/books/learn-windows-powershell-in-a-month-of-lunches-second-edition https://www.manning.com/books/learn-windows-powershell-in-a-... > not many tools, All usual tools, linux and windows, can be used. You have majority of them hosted on chocolatey.

majkinetor 6y ago

Like others have said, you would never type that long thing in Powershell, just `irm wttr.in` (even shorter then curl). People for some reason always show long stuff that is only used when you write scripts to share with others and not interactivelly - you could do the same with curl if you use --long-parameter-names but somehow people are biased when talking about posh like aliases and other things do not exist.