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Ever since Microsoft decided with Microsoft Graph that “everything is a string” and “Everything is a REST API call” PowerShell has honestly seemed dumber and du
by faeriechangling 2y ago
Ever since Microsoft decided with Microsoft Graph that “everything is a string” and “Everything is a REST API call” PowerShell has honestly seemed dumber and dumber to me. It’s great at manipulating Win32 stuff and pretty much perfect for that task sure but it’s in a weird place now since Bash and friends were always better for simple string manipulation tasks.
Backticks for line continuations was also a satanic decision, even knowing of the myriad alternatives to them in PoSH.
- nrr 2y agoI'm still holding out for a Tcl port to the CLR (StrongTcl? IronTcl? Tcl#?) for exactly this reason.
- 6c 2y agoThere is Eagle: https://eagle.to https://eagle.to (never used it, just aware of its existence)
- nrr 2y agoOh, this looks like a real gem. Thank you for making my day today.
- pjmlp 2y agoAs someone that was in a startup built on top of Tcl during the dotcom wave, I doubt Tcl is coming back as it was back in 2000.