2y ago

rulershell 7-x64

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That isnt the mascot , that IS the wizard
You expected your content to be downloaded by curl
It was me, Invoke-WebRequest!
the only thing i know about powershell is that the linux binary is named pwsh which i learned the hard way after writing pow and then accidentally tab completing poweroff and shutting down my pc
in fairness that might've been a sign
- I just learned you can use powershell your default shell. Ngl i'm kinda impressed...
Powershell is actually powerful. You can write full on WPF grafical user interfaces with it.
- If powershell wasn't a Microsoft product I think it could easily outclass any shell currently available. The concept of command output typing is hand down one of the best features of any shell I've tried.
  
  nushell is a thing, and basically has all the fun powershell features like a type system, but a more Unixy presentation. I've not used it, so don't know if it's actually any good, but it at least exists.
  
  Apples to oranges, powershell is windows exposing most of COM, WMI and .NET object models while improving on the previous options with CScript and VBscript, as those are older than .NET.
  Why are we comparing it with UNIX/Linux shells is beyond me.
  
  How is it being a Microsoft product a bad thing? It's fully open source and available on both Linux and Windows;
  also nushell
  
  nushell is taking the same route I think
  
  I like the typing, but I hate the syntax and verbosity of it. It feels very complex to write.
  
  I'm confused by this command output typing you're talking about, and I'm not sure if I found the correct thing. Are you talking about the Write-Host and Write-Output?
- Reminder that you can use any CLI interpreter as your shell. IPython, Pry, PHP, or whatever you want.
  
  ghci
- Of course you can, but why would you?
  
  It was my stepping stone from being an IT Support tech to a traditional Software Developer. Yes it's not as easy to work with as a traditional language or as fast but it's more flexible and often less verbose.
thank you! i've literally felt the same ever since powershell introduced the icon

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