The point is, if a developer is resorting to another language just to write a 20 line script with a data structure, a loop and control flow, that's a failure of

The point is, if a developer is resorting to another language just to write a 20 line script with a data structure, a loop and control flow, that's a failure of the shell. I don't want to have to use anything other than PS to script on Windows, but I'm often forced to in order to be productive. It's not saying much for the language that Windows sysadmins use PS primarily. Like Bash, the reason people use it is availability, not language virtue. See last year's Stack Overflow developer survey, where Bash was more popular than PS (29% (Bash) to 12% (PS)[1]) and loved (57% (Bash) to 43% (PS)[2]). I don't like Bash. I'm using it as a yardstick to show how disappointing PS is. [1]: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#most-popular-technologies-language https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#most-popular-technolog... [2]: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#technology-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#technology-most-loved-...