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by InclinedPlane
3948 days ago
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I've lived in both the windows and linux/unix worlds and I will say that powershell is a better scripting language than bash. Bash is ok, but powershell is nicer. Powershell is sort of like python in that it tends to force down a path of doing things in a certain way. Powershell isn't just "more tools and glue for windows stuff", it's a different way of doing things. In powershell you get named command-line parameters for free, that's a huge win. You get usage messages and simplified man-page help baked into the way things work, that's also huge. In powershell you don't just work with text, you work with objects, which pass along the pipeline. That means that instead of using sed and awk to muck up the output of some other script you can just use simple select, where, and format commands. This is incredibly powerful and an area where linux has fallen behind. I like linux a lot, but this attitude of sneering down at windows and powershell merely because it's not linux is amateurish and parochial. People should be thinking about adapting the innovations that powershell has made and building on them instead of looking at it as some bizarre alien beast that will never be relevant to them. |
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But Powershell people dismiss the bash and Linux model of "everything's a file", too, the same way others dismiss the Powershell model. They're different; neither is "unquestionably" better for all cases.
Personally, once I start wanting stateful objects I can pass around to multiple methods, I switch from Bash to Python or Rust. I don't think Bash fits that use case well either, but that's not the only use case around.