[Kukumber]

I personally don't count powershell as a shell, it's more like an interpreted/jit compiled .net interactive CLI 'shell', hence why it is slow to start and to run

A shell is a program that takes your commands and send them to the OS, it doesn't compile anything

[naikrovek]

a shell is what you type your commands into. a shell interprets those commands, pipes between them, and to and from file handles, and acts as the interface between the human and the things they want to do.

bash is FAR slower than PowerShell, and it's interpreted.

[Kukumber]

> bash is FAR slower than PowerShell, and it's interpreted.

That's not true at all

I have a demonstration that's very telling:

    time pwsh

    time bash

Post your result

It's sad that nowadays people do not understand the purpose of a shell

[pixl97]

This really sounds like shell gatekeeping touching on the no true Scotsman fallacy.

The purpose of the shell, to me, is to

1. Remote management/system administration. 2. Application execution 3. Data modification in situ

And powershell does all 3 for me.

Lastly just typing bash/pwsh is a useless benchmark as I can make both run at wildly different speeds (bash .profile modification and pwsh -noprofile loading)

[Kukumber]

I never said you should not use it, i'm not gatekeeping

I only state a fact, you pick what you want that empowers you to do great things

But i'm not going to ignore wrong claims, it lowers the standard of quality we should expect from the tools we create, share and use