The actual real reason is *nix had mature shell scripting many years before powershell was conceived. For powershell to "take off" on non-Windows platforms, ma

The actual real reason is *nix had mature shell scripting many years before powershell was conceived. For powershell to "take off" on non-Windows platforms, many people need to adopt it and for many people to adopt it, it needs to solve some critical problems the existing solutions don't solve well. I think pretty clearly, powershell doesn't do that. (I think I personally would be an easy candidate to use it on Mac... I know/use powershell pretty much daily at my day job -- so there's a minimal learning curve and I still haven't seen any reason to use it on various Mac side projects and jobs. I just do bash/zsh scripts. If it was built in maybe I'd reconsider.) For myself, I know powershell reasonably well from my day job Sometimes people will switch to something new just because it's new, but for , generthe new thing has to have some