[JoshTriplett]

I'm not sneering at PowerShell because it's not Linux. And I think it's an impressive model. It's certainly a different way of doing things, and it's worth looking at and learning from.

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.

[clinta]

Personally I think an interactive shell that works well with objects is incredibly valuable. I love working in PowerShell and I wish there was a good Python based shell that I could use to replace zsh. I spend a lot of time in iPython but it's not quite the same.