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I personally don't count powershell as a shell, it's more like an interpreted/jit compiled .net interactive CLI 'shell', hence why it is slow to start and to ru

• naikrovek 4y ago
  a shell is what you type your commands into. a shell interprets those commands, pipes between them, and to and from file handles, and acts as the interface between the human and the things they want to do. bash is FAR slower than PowerShell, and it's interpreted.
  • Kukumber 4y ago
    > bash is FAR slower than PowerShell, and it's interpreted. That's not true at all I have a demonstration that's very telling: time pwsh time bash Post your result It's sad that nowadays people do not understand the purpose of a shell
    • pixl97 4y ago
      This really sounds like shell gatekeeping touching on the no true Scotsman fallacy. The purpose of the shell, to me, is to 1. Remote management/system administration. 2. Application execution 3. Data modification in situ And powershell does all 3 for me. Lastly just typing bash/pwsh is a useless benchmark as I can make both run at wildly different speeds (bash .profile modification and pwsh -noprofile loading)
      • Kukumber 4y ago
        I never said you should not use it, i'm not gatekeeping I only state a fact, you pick what you want that empowers you to do great things But i'm not going to ignore wrong claims, it lowers the standard of quality we should expect from the tools we create, share and use