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[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Powershell suffers from the typical Microsoft problem: Ignore for decades, and then go completely over the top with it.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I see Powershell as a nuclear bomb. It is extremely powerful and complex and barely anybody uses it because of it.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Isn't powershell just bash but for windows?

[–] alokir@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Yes and no. They serve roughly the same purpose.

I actually hated Powershell until I was forced to work on some automation scripts with it and realized that it's actually pretty cool.

Bash is good for quickly doing something in the terminal but for longer script files I prefer PS now. It feels much more modern and has a less janky syntax.

Funnily enough the reason I had to use it was to make my scripts cross platform between osx, linux and windows.

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