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What is wrong with PowerShell core? *PS core is the one based on the new versions of dotnet.
by dellamonica 3y ago
What is wrong with PowerShell core?
*PS core is the one based on the new versions of dotnet.
- tracker1 3y agoYou can build a web server and do ETL with PowerShell? If it's a simple script, bash is in the box... If it's more complex, I'll reach for a more rich scripting platform.
- dellamonica 3y agoI mean, the entire dotnet is available, you can do anything in PS though obviously that is not always the smart call. It has been very useful to me to use as a REPL on my own C# libraries, I can instantiate and use types from these libraries and interface with the file system and network on an ad hoc basis.
- smackeyacky 3y agoI am old - my first work experience was on Unix machines in the late eighties and I just find Linux a lot easier to work with if you're spending a lot of time with a CLI. You have more default tools at your disposal (bash, make, sed/awk/grep etc) which all have to be installed manually on a Windows machine. Powershell tries to be everything and ends up being too much, badly implemented. I have dabbled in it for Windows/Microsoft specific things (Outlook manipulation) but while you can write a PS script that tries to do something like delete all yesterdays mail with a particular characteristic, in practice it often doesn't work due to the impedence mismatch between COM and PS. I like the idea, I really do, but it's just not as straight up practical as the Unix tools.
- dellamonica 3y agoYes, if you don't use dotnet and is already used to Unix tooling then it is a tough sell, but otherwise the integration with dotnet is quite good.