[vezzy-fnord]

Much of the time that PowerShell is mentioned here is in the context of a discussion about how nun-punchingly awful the Unix shell is, and what could possibly replace it.

Precisely my impression as well. It's the PowerShell promoters who tend to be the ones that bait first.

I'm personally not partial to PowerShell, but I hardly loathe it, either. I think the likes of the Inferno shell and es show the right path to what a modern shell should resemble.