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I'm curious, how do you feel about PowerShell? I think it's quite amazing in that it's basically the scripting language for dotnet. I love that it allows for i

I'm curious, how do you feel about PowerShell? I think it's quite amazing in that it's basically the scripting language for dotnet. I love that it allows for interactive usage of dotnet libraries. To me it has the feel of a lot of the dynamic languages from the past, but in a framework that acknowledges types. I've been using it for finance/economic data stuff lately. For example: https://github.com/dharmatech/net-liquidity.ps1 https://github.com/dharmatech/net-liquidity.ps1 The only downside is a lack of a Pandas-like library for it, so I occasionally reach for Python for larger datasets.

7thaccount 3y ago
Powershell is great, but it'd really benefit from a GUI DSL for building UIs and charting data (dotnet is a lot of effort), increased speed (it's pretty slow) and libraries like pandas for data analysis and something like the GNU scientific library available. If those things were all built-in to Powershell/Windows, we'd have something pretty cool and unique, which is the ability to quickly and easily build little apps that don't require installs or anything like that. Just copy your script over for your buddy. As is the theme in this thread, there's just so much I'd expect Windows to do that it simply can't do. Powershell is basically designed for Devops and not just normal business users unfortunately. It could be so much more.