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

submitted 1 week 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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[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

oh, so it's it's own language too.

I only use it to access WSL (don't judge me)

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Did you mean WSL? I mostly use it for that too because lua development on windows is ass.

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

yhea, sorry.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

If you are on Windows test out either Git bash or Msys2

Much better experience