[arch-general] Opinions on PowerShell?

[Stephen E. Baker]

On 8/19/2016 6:21 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Hunter Connelly via arch-general <arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> Here's an example I found on Reddit in the thread about this on /r/linux.
>> Both of the following commands find the size and name of the three largest files
>> in a directory.
>>
>> Bash:        ls -l | sed 's/ \+/,/g' | cut -d',' -f 5,9 | sort -g | tail -3
>> PowerShell:  ls -file | sort -pr length | select length, name -l 3
> If it overlays standardized behavior by non-standard behavior, this would
> indeed be a strong afrument against it.
>
> Jörg
>
By default PowerShell comes preconfigured with aliases that match the 
familiar names of unix programs that approximately describe the 
PowerShell equivalents. Sometimes these aliases are more accurate than 
others, e.g. ls => Get-Items is fairly reasonable, other times the 
aliases are terribly misleading, like curl => Invoke-WebRequest.

PowerShell also interacts poorly with traditional text based unix 
programs (and windows programs for that matter). It is definitely best 
treated like a python shell, interacting with other powershell 
commandlets, modules, and .NET libraries.

As a PowerShell user, it certainly has it's place, but it's place is 
pretty niche in the linux world, so +1 for the AUR.