On 08/18/2016 08:35 PM, Kyle Terrien via arch-general wrote:
I haven't used PowerShell much. But in briefly looking at it, the commands are very verbose compared to Unix/Linux. E.g. grep is something like Get-Item.
My Windows survival kit currently consists of Cygwin, which still kicks butt to this day. You could even run a full X server under Cygwin.
This. Absolutely this. Why would anyone want to use an overly-verbose scripting language like PowerShell as an interactive shell, **unless it was their only option**? I am sure someone will package it in the AUR. And I am sure some people will actually use it -- probably just because they have legacy PowerShell scripts/experience and/or they are interfacing with Windows. But I don't see it being very popular, and certainly not enough to be sponsored in the main repos. -- Eli Schwartz