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Re:Maybe We Should Stop Creating Inscrutable CLIs by chopraaa on Saturday August 17, 2019 @12:52PM (#20724873)
Can you elaborate on this?

I've been a huge fan of PowerShell ever since I started using it (over two years now) and it's my go-to scripting language on my workstation. You can write integrations in the form of modules - VMware has Power CLI, Azure and AWS both have great PowerShell modules.

Why would you say it's not a real programming language? It's as powerful as Bash and seems to do the job quite nicely in most cases for scripting.

Re:Maybe We Should Stop Creating Inscrutable CLIs by c3534l on Saturday August 17, 2019 @01:33PM (#20725125)
Oh. It's certainly better than Bash, but it's still better to use Python or C#. Powershell makes so many weird decisions and it's so verbose and wordy that it becomes unreadable in the opposite way of Bash. I don't think the shell scripting space is desirable. Either you should be typing in commands manually or you should be writing a program. Powershell and Bash exist in a weird space in between them and wind up being crappy programs rather than readable shell commands.