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But can't you just use fish?

• sargstuff 1y ago
  Why not just install Powershell for linux?[1] [1] : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/install/installing-powershell-on-linux?view=powershell-7.5 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/insta...
  • tangotaylor 1y ago
    I could but no one else on my team (which is used to Linux) would touch my scripts. It’s just too foreign for Linux devs whereas it ships with Windows.
    • rastignack 1y ago
      Nowadays a lot of people script in python
      • general1726 1y ago
        Yeah sure after they are done fighting with venv or why this scripts written in a different version of Python behaves differently on this computer... During scripting they can be constantly annoyed by Python's indentation errors. Really awesome stuff when your syntax is whitespace dependent.
        • sargstuff 1y ago
          > ... behaves differently on this computer... vs. in linux, running powershell scripts under a virtualized instance of windows to avoid linux OS / windows OS differences issues? ---- other extreme end of the 'whitespace' spectrum: APL : no white space / single character instead of multicharacter programming language tokens. Maximum expressiveness without any need for whitespace!
    • sargstuff 1y ago
      Proprietary 'shell' vs. linux DIY/customized setup. There are a multiple publically accessible/usable sources which can be found via search engine(s) to extend bash / unix shell functionality based on points discussed in topic link. few article link topic snippits: * approaches to autocompletion : [0][1] * 'man' command and/or cli option -h to cli command shows 'docstring' / options * jq resources for shell plugin[2] -------------- [0] https://faun.pub/configure-bash-auto-completion-tab-completion-on-linux-db0d9310818b https://faun.pub/configure-bash-auto-completion-tab-completi... [1] https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html [2] https://github.com/fiatjaf/awesome-jq https://github.com/fiatjaf/awesome-jq
      • nojito 1y ago
        Powershell is Open Source https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell
        • jdmg94 1y ago
          that is a thing that started under Nadella's leadership, during the 90s it was a different story.
          • feldrim 1y ago
            Those two "PowerShell"s are not the same. For the sake of cross platform deployment, they moved away from the original a lot -though they managed to support many things in time. The old and original one was released in 2006,IIRC, so it didn't exist in 90s.
• tangotaylor 1y ago
  I put a note at the end about that: the lack of a `set -e` / fail fast equivalent was a dealbreaker for me.