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0 pointssidpatil5y ago0 comments

> On windows i need to use archaic developer tools like powershell.

What makes PowerShell archaic, in your opinion?

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friedman235y ago· 3 in thread

It's not bash. It's proprietary garbage. It's not what I'm going to be using on my production servers. Why it exists? I have no clue.

sidpatilOP5y ago

I'm not sure what you're referring to specifically when you say "proprietary", but most of PowerShell is available under the MIT license.

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell#legal-and-licensing

pjmlp5y ago

Hey Apple stuff is also proprietary garbage, why are you using it for your development work then?

Two weights, two measures?

rbrtl5y ago

Apple's terminal environment is POSIX-like. PowerShell was always a bit of a lame duck, or Microsoft wouldn't have bothered with WSL to get real power users to stick with their platform.

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