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PowerShell is underrated, but it's its own worst enemy, stubbornly insisting on LongForm-VerbNoun syntax for all but the most common commands that anyone famili
by cookiecaper 6y ago
PowerShell is underrated, but it's its own worst enemy, stubbornly insisting on LongForm-VerbNoun syntax for all but the most common commands that anyone familiar with the shell would expect. A few UI touchups and it could go substantially further, especially as MS continues quietly gutting the NT heritage out of Win10 and integrating more and more nix-like features, including full Linux kernel emulation, all so you can run Docker without a VM! What a world.
I continue to believe that within 10 years, Microsoft will have just switched entirely to Linux+WINE under the covers. :)
- vips7L 6y agoThe long command names are really only something you use in scripts. Powershell is my main shell for both scripting and interaction and at least on my system it comes installed with tons of short aliases for common commands. For example: Get-ChildItem was already aliased to both ls and gci on my system.
- majkinetor 6y agoNot just on your system. Default aliases come OTB and they were only slightly changed with arise of the pwsh so not to mirror some native commands.