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Not to mention, everything-is-an-object is a much better experience than text only.
by pathartl 10mo ago
Not to mention, everything-is-an-object is a much better experience than text only.
- jiggawatts 10mo agoI wouldn’t mind a shell that uses structured text, such as JSON, but the inefficiency of the parsing and serialisation makes my eye twitch.
- hiAndrewQuinn 10mo agoPowerShell does provide a ConvertTo-Json [0] for those who need it. [0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.utility/convertto-json?view=powershell-7.5 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsof... Contrary to how it sounds I actually like PowerShell as a scripting language in itself. A lot of its ideas are pretty clever. I treat my dormant familiarity with it as a resume hedge. Ideally things in my life continue to go well, and I can keep climbing the ranks of doing more and more impressive things powered by the Unix systems I've been daily driving since I was 14. If, however, things in my life ever go truly sideways, I could probably dial it way back and eke out an existence at some low pay, low stress, fully remote Windows admin job at some dinosaur of a company somewhere. There I could use PS and its deep, deep integration with all things Windows to automate 90-99% of it away, so that I could spend my time e.g. tending to my young children instead. (Even if Copy-Item is 27% slower than drag and drop. My time is still more expensive than the machine's.) I truly never hope that has to happen, of course.