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> Just wait a couple decades and languages slowly improve or they die. Bash has been around for 33 years. Much of its syntax has been around for 52 years throu

• Supermancho 4y ago
  Almost everything that Bash is good at, other languages have already adopted with a superior syntax. The only thing Ba/sh type syntax has going for it is the *nix ecosystems (note the parallels with powershell). That will keep it used for the rest of our lifetimes, if you're only interested in short-term thinking. Ofc this is bigger thinking than the Powershell vs Bash debate, per se. Powershell is more useable as a language, if not by pure syntactic maturity, than by features alone. There will always be someone who will disagree with the obvious, but there's no doubt that the algol syntax is going away...however long that will take.
  • IncRnd 4y ago
    Powershell is good at managing windows boxes. I've tried running powershell on linux in order to manage a windows network from the output of a (bash) script that ran on a linux machine. It didn't work. Powershell is a husk of a language on non-windows machines. The important modules like AD are missing, so it won't work properly on non-windows machines.
  • notaquaker 4y ago