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PowerShell is cross platform now and it’s quite good. I would encourage people who’ve never tried it to give it a shot. Like 99% of other people who never used

PowerShell is cross platform now and it’s quite good. I would encourage people who’ve never tried it to give it a shot. Like 99% of other people who never used PoSh, I thought it was just a Windows shovelware replacement for Command Prompt. I was mistaken—the syntax is actually a lot simpler than bash, but it’s just as capable. One of the cooler features about PoSh is that you can leverage Visual Basic/C#/.NET from it, and you can script GUIs (like Python’s tkinter library).

JNRowe 6y ago
I'd probably like to see powershell usage increase too, but I think we may be in the minority. Every time it comes up I check to see if it is available in Debian and see that the packaging bug¹ has been open for years without anyone caring enough to move on it. The referenced upstream bug² points out that it isn't capital-F Free enough to distribute [yet], but you'd expect more comments in the bug if people were pushing(or a package for the non-free section). ¹ https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=834756 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=834756 ² https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/5869 https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/5869
haolez 6y ago
But What-Is-Up-With-Those-Really-Long-Commands? :)