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Do you actually care about this?
by davidmurdoch 2y ago
Do you actually care about this?
- thefaux 2y agoNot OP, but I do. In principle it shouldn't really matter what the size of the binary is, but a large binary relative to peers in the program's category usually reflects complexity and bloat. Powershell feels sluggish and unresponsive to me relative to fish, bash or zsh (the three shells I've used most). I was so put off by the feel of powershell five or so years ago that I haven't used it since then. For that reason though, I will concede it's possible it's better now but I'd be pretty surprised given Microsoft's track record.
- faeriechangling 2y agoIt’s still a lousy interactive shell, although it’s a fine sysadmin oriented scripting language and better than bash/zsh/fish for such purposes. You’d only ever use it to work with Microsoft stuff though, and older Microsoft stuff at that.
- chasil 2y agoI care about dash because when I write for it, I write for them all. The speed and economy of size are a side effect.
- davidmurdoch 2y agoI don't understand. How does the size of an application change how you write code?