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Powershell is a weird beast for sure.

Takes care of the parsing and makes pipelines less brittle for sure (just look at things like NO_COLOR [0] that are basically "please adopt this so we can stop having to add endless edge cases to strip ansi color codes") because it keeps data flowing between programs into a machine-friendly format. It's only when it reaches a human that it is formatted for a human to see.

Then when you peel off the surface you realize you can invoke C# directly from the shell. That's right, either you can import any C# .dll out there and call it from the shell or flat out write C# in your script and have Powershell execute it at runtime [2]. You can add syntaxic sugar to make your dll easier to work with but any C# dll can be called from powershell.

As a side effect, this means that if you have a front-end/back-end app with the back-end written in C#, you also have a (bad) scripting interface basically for free.

[0] https://no-color.org/

[2] https://tekcookie.com/use-c-in-powershell/