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I suppose their point is that much as you can install and run PowerShell outside Windows, you can run Swift outside Apple's ecosystem. People just don't do eith

I suppose their point is that much as you can install and run PowerShell outside Windows, you can run Swift outside Apple's ecosystem. People just don't do either of those things very often.

int_19h 4y ago
With Swift, the support for other platforms is mostly token right now. As in, you can write code in it, but e.g. their sample app for Windows uses Win32 API directly - for Windows developers, that would be already considered outdated 20 years ago. OTOH PowerShell actually works largely the same across all supported platforms, so it's equally useful on all of them in absolute terms. Now, outside of Windows, we've had decent shells for much longer, so its relative utility is indeed lower on those platforms (although not non-zero, if you find the notion of an object-oriented shell with a rich standard library useful). One particular use case where it comes in handy is when you have to script some automation for both Windows and Linux; e.g. cross-platform builds or CI. So mostly shared code, but in a few places you might need to do "if LINUX then ...".