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Why Microsoft open sourced PowerShell and ported it to Linux (www.cio.com)

submitted 1 month ago by StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org to c/linux@programming.dev

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In the comments section of a recent post I found out that Windows PowerShell had been ported to Linux. Had no clue it was a thing.

Went looking and found this old article attempting to explain why they did it. Not remotely interested in giving up Bash for PowerShell, but I thought it was interesting enough to share. The article seems to be from 2016.

I have never been more tempted to check the NSFW box, but I'll leave it open for now unless a mod complains. :-D

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 month ago (12 children)

I wouldn't go that far

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago (11 children)

As much as I hate windows powershell is actually decent.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (10 children)

The problem is that on Linux it competes with bash and dozens of way better terminals.

[–] jeeva@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

We're not talking terminals, though, are we? You can run pwsh in dozens of terminals. As a shell, it's... Very decent.

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