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

submitted 5 days 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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[–] porl@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But that's almost never how a system is configured. The entire point is that bash, zsh, fish etc. can make use of those utilities. You don't need bash trying to reinvent everything. You don't want that. That's why changing shells is generally painless and a strength, not a weakness.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 0 points 3 days ago

But on windows it makes sense to have the stuff built in, because those utilities are not on windows.