PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux

Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by hibikir on Thursday August 18, 2016 @11:24PM (#12317802)

Sure, it beats Java, but the VM is worse for running other languages, and that's where .NET loses. F# tries to be nice, but reified generics are more of a limitation than help in that world.

In JVM land, now Java just hands you some specific well tested libraries: You write business code with Scala or Clojure, which I'd pick over C# by about as much as I'd pick C# over Java 7.

That said, I have far more faith in Microsoft improving their tooling than I have about Oracle doing the same: It's just that Oracle has to carry a far smaller weight, because the good JVM languages aren't even theirs.

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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by ygra on Friday August 19, 2016 @01:53AM (#12318211)

Uhm, the CLR (hence the name) was specifically designed to host different languages that can interoperate with each other and unlike the JVM was not built around the capabilities and limitations of a single language.

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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by Graphon1 on Saturday August 20, 2016 @01:22AM (#12325342)

> Sure, it beats Java, but the VM is worse for running other languages,

based on what criteria?

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