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At this point, all PowerShell has accomplished is creating a separate ecosystem. The designers set out to make a "better" shell and yet refused to ever learn th
by kbolino 2y ago
At this point, all PowerShell has accomplished is creating a separate ecosystem. The designers set out to make a "better" shell and yet refused to ever learn the things they were allegedly "improving".
Basic features are still lacking from PowerShell that have been in UNIX shells since the very beginning: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/3316 https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/3316
But hey, that's a fixable problem, right? No, because PowerShell is so suffused with arrogance about its superiority that anything, no matter how simple it was to do in a UNIX shell, has to be cross-examined, re-imagined, and bent over the wheel of PowerShell's superiority, before ultimately getting ignored or rejected anyway.
PowerShell is a language unto itself. It is not a replacement for bash/zsh/etc because nobody who knows the latter well can easily migrate to the former, and that's by design.
- g15jv2dp 2y agoSome very strong sentiments about a shell...
- kbolino 2y agoI want there to be something better than the UNIX shells, at least when it comes to error handling and data parsing. PowerShell was supposed to be that tool, but it seems to have lost sight of that goal somewhere along the way.