I get the feeling that there's a bunch of people working for, or being paid by, Microsoft who really love functional programming. Some of Microsoft's best outputs comes from those teams/folks.

It could just be a coincidence/confirmation bias, so I wonder if there's actually something to that.

If you care about programming enough to really have preferences on things like functional or OO or other kinds of "deep" topics, then you're invested.

> I get the feeling that there's a bunch of people working for, or being paid by, Microsoft who really love functional programming.

Simon Peyton Jones, Simon Marlow, Edward Kmett, Conal Elliott, and I’m sure a lot of other people with fundamental contributions to the Haskell ecosystem who I can’t remember offhand all work or previously worked at Microsoft Research, so that part is just straightforwardly true.

cmd is a shell. The old terminal is called conhost I think.

I figured I'd get this from someone. ;) I'm approximating that 99% of people who use Windows use default terminals for built-in legacy shells, and thus effectively analogous terminology. You're correct though!

Yeah it is far superior to cmd. But I mean cmd was frozen in the 90s it seems anyway.

Are PowerShell and Windows Terminal the same team?