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0 pointstracker19y ago0 comments

I learned C# with a big fat book, and the command line compiler... I understand the usefulness of command line applications.

However, when I need more than what a simple shell script gives me, I'm more inclined to reach for node, ruby or python than C#/.Net ... the overhead for a quick scripting environment is quite a bit lower than having to setup a project and build requirements. I've done both...

Why node, is simply npm... create a directory, npm init, write my script, etc. reference it from an alias or .cmd in my ~/bin directory (added to my path). Then it works in windows, mac and linux which I use all regularly. PS is mostly windows.

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rubber_duck9y ago

Have you ever written a commandlet ? This is my point, regardless of how you feel in PS vs Bash or Python vs C# - exposing your application logic trough commandlets is incredibly simple and powerful - much simpler than doing a CLI app in other languages even with argument parsing frameworks in python and likes, commandlets let you pipe and return/accept .NET objects.

So my comment isn't PS everything or C# everything, it's if you're using C# to write a big fat monolithic app that has multiple isolated functionalities you can expose those fairly easily with PS.

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