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

submitted 5 months 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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[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean? If you run powershell directly it opens up either in conhost or Windows Terminal, depending on whatever is your default, doesn't it? Unless you mean PowerShell ISE or whatever it's called.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

I mean running it directly shows up in the ugly blue window, and that's slower in my experience.