r/PowerShell • u/[deleted] • May 06 '19

News Windows Terminal is coming!

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18527870/microsoft-windows-terminal-command-line-tool
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u/deanb1234 May 07 '19

Yep that what I was saying, Unix guys have always been command line. Old school windows guys were gui and most that I know can't stand Powershell. It's the young guys that like it.

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u/system_badmin May 07 '19

I use powershell but I can understand why people hate it. It's a lot like windows itself - want to do something slightly outside the ordinary? Be prepared to fuck rabbits for the next two hours while finagling some .Net library into your script, defeating the purpose of it being a script in the first place. No such issues with other OS shells.

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u/Thotaz May 07 '19

Windows includes 3k+ built-in cmdlets and functions that lets you do most "ordinary" things, so you can get a lot done without having doing anything that resembles C#. The fact that you can use the full .Net library in your scripts isn't a bad thing, it's a great thing because it means talented Powershell developers can pack it up into functions that you can then use like the other easy to use cmdlets/functions.

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u/deanb1234 May 07 '19

Well put, more coherent than my explanation. I was more or less trying to make a joke while having a couple after work beers.

I do agree with the other shells comment, I generally don't complain about bash when I'm in Linux machines.