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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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[–] Mjpasta710@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can understand that. There are several expression 'rules' that don't feel right to me.

As a wonder, what's your 'first' language? Did you like it?

I'd guess that might influence your preferences.

I started with (iirc, in order) batch, bash, python, powershell, go, typescript, rust.

I'm not putting all the 'markup' languages in there.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

I started with (in order, give or take one or two): python, javascript, lua, c, bash, powershell