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Why Microsoft open sourced PowerShell and ported it to Linux (www.cio.com)

submitted 1 week ago by StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org to c/linux@programming.dev

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In the comments section of a recent post I found out that Windows PowerShell had been ported to Linux. Had no clue it was a thing.

Went looking and found this old article attempting to explain why they did it. Not remotely interested in giving up Bash for PowerShell, but I thought it was interesting enough to share. The article seems to be from 2016.

I have never been more tempted to check the NSFW box, but I'll leave it open for now unless a mod complains. :-D

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It works fine for what it is. Bash is just a shell while Powershell is more of a scripting language.

I think a better comparison would be Python vs Powershell.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago

It doesn't work fine for what it is. People use Bash for scripting all the time and it's full of footguns and gotchas. Powershell is just an attempt at a sane shell. It's not meant to be a full general purpose language like Python; it doesn't make sense to equate them.

Personally I don't really like the style of Powershell. The structured data is very obviously a good thing but I don't really like the syntax. Nushell seems a lot nicer IMO.