| I am the author of Gow. > This is a junk submission. Where to start? I've never submitted Gow to Hacker News but it does seem to pop up every once and a while and it gets the project a few hits. This is a project I work on in my free time (and I get paid very well hourly so it's expensive to me) and if it weren't for programmers like me you wouldn't be able to do half the things you can do on your computer, so unless you've spent thousands of hours coding for free then please stop spreading the hate. > This project hasn't shown activity in 10 months. Please do your research. I just made a big release yesterday so the user that posted this wasn't just spamming HN. https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki/change_log > Furthermore, the project is largely written in VBScript and batch files, which is insanity I wrote that script 10 years ago and it works with every version of Windows from Windows 2000 on. I made Gow so I could use Unix utilities on all versions of Windows. If I wrote it in PowerShell then it would force all users to either use a new version of Windows or download the PowerShell installer for zero added benefit. The script just adds Gow\bin to the PATH. Gow certainly doesn't need PowerShell for that. |