Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux
by daveloyall on Thursday August 18, 2016 @04:30PM
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I hear you. I myself was impressed by some things PowerShell can do easily.
But let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater... The unix shell ecosystem is powerful magic. There are LOTS of things that can be done there with great ease.
Not to mention--and I understand full well that this stance is falling out of fashion--MICROSOFT ... KILLED... my PAPPY! :|
I was more just commenting on the fact that with a "strongly-typed" shell some of this stuff becomes much easier without every single tool needing to add all these options.
It gets much more "Unix Philosophy" when every command doesn't need it's own sorting logic, and doesn't need it's own date display logic, and doesn't need it's own way of displaying it to the user.
It can output an object, which can be piped into another program to use what it needs which can be piped to something else to do some sorting which can pipe it out to another to display it in a nice table.