Re:jc: Converts the output of popular command-line tools to ...
by da_chicken on Friday December 08, 2023 @02:20PM
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Eh, not really. Powershell itself is fairly limited in terms of functionality. It's basically one step removed from a .Net REPL, and the .Net classes aren't necessarily written to do *nix admin tasks. It gives you all of .Net to build tools with, but sometimes you still run into Microsoftisms that are total nonsense. There's a reason every C# project was using Newtonsoft's JSON.Net instead of the wonky custom data representations that MS was trying to push left over from the embrace/extend/extinguish era.
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Re:jc: Converts the output of popular command-line tools to ...
by uxp8u61q on Friday December 08, 2023 @04:26PM
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I see a lot of buzzwords and attacks in this comment but nothing actually concrete.
Re:jc: Converts the output of popular command-line tools to ...
by da_chicken on Saturday December 09, 2023 @10:37AM
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If you think .Net is the best way to interact with a *nix environment for administration, by all means go ahead. I think you'll have a lot of fun discovering the problems with it. Lie most tasks involve a pipeline of native commands. Well, if you want a Powershell command in the middle, that means you have to run a native command, marshall the output to an object, do the Powershell commands, then serialize that output back into characters, and then output to a native command. And you potentially have to deal with Powershell thinking in UTF-16 and *nix thinking in UTF-8.
However this is social media, not an academic paper, and you didn't put much effort into backing your claims, either.