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Unpopular opinion but powershell, available on Linux, supports all of the things this article wanted to do out the box.
by ghjfrdghibt 2y ago
Unpopular opinion but powershell, available on Linux, supports all of the things this article wanted to do out the box.
- actionfromafar 2y agoIt does, but it's so darn weird. Can we have another flavour of Powershell but with some other language hooked up to its dotnet underpinnings? Like I dunno, I would even take Lua over the weird syntax of PS.
- PinkMilkshake 2y agoPowerShell is sort of two languages, and it looks weird because they are often used together. But if you see them separate first, there isn't much there that is surprising. I do somewhat share your concern about it being built on dotnet, but one advantage is you have access to everything in dotnet, including building GUI apps (Windows only). Though, at that point the syntax does get kinda weird.
- actionfromafar 2y agoOh, the dotnet integration is what I actually like about Powershell. It's very useful even on Linux.
- xanth 2y agoLikewise, its a superpower to be able to integrate with a dll that wasn't developed with PS1 in mind
- sakesun 2y agoIndeed, it's very weird. It really took much more time than I expect to learn Powershell, even with many years of coding experience. But I'm totally happy now.
- pockybum522 2y agoOne of the requirements of the author was something that could work on embedded-sized resources.
- more_corn 2y agoNever have I wanted to stab out my eyes as much as when wrestling with powershell.