PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux

Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by lucb1e on Friday August 19, 2016 @06:27PM (#12323959)

I noticed that on old computers (Windows 95, I think, and certainly 2000 and XP) where it would classify .js files as executables. I was about 11-14 so I didn't understand much of Windows at the time, let alone in a foreign language (I'm Dutch) when I wasn't even allowed to use the Internet (dialing up was expensive per-minute stuff), but yeah I remember that.

Still, I've never heard of anyone using Javascript or VBScript to automate anything. It's either powershell (these days), cmd scripts or custom .NET software. I've never even heard anyone mention using javascript in Windows (until apps came around in Windows 8) and vbs is only ever patchwork for legacy third-party software products as far as I've seen in my sysadmin days.

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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by Graphon1 on Saturday August 20, 2016 @01:29AM (#12325348)

> I've never heard of anyone using Javascript or VBScript to automate anything.

as just one example, It's common to include JavaScript or VBScript steps in Windows installers. You would never know it, if you ran an installer that used a script to automate a few things.

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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by blakeyrat on Friday August 19, 2016 @10:00PM (#12324724)

> Still, I've never heard of anyone using Javascript or VBScript to automate anything.

Well thousands of companies have done it, so. I don't know what to tell you.

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