PowerShell is terrible compared to the Unix shell. Bash is so superior it’s not even a competition.
And OMG is PowerShell slow. So, so slow.
PowerShell is like an industrial dump truck. One of those big ones they only use on mining sites with eight-foot-tall tires.
Except Microsoft has tried to make it do everything, so when you try to drive PowerShell down a lane in a suburb it’s either do it at 0.5 mph or ruin everything in sight. And there’s no way to just take the Corolla because there is no Corolla.
It’s the dumptruck or nothing.
And the commands are so long. You have to compose a novel to do something that Bash can do in one line.
PowerShell is Microsoft’s Unix envy showing except they threw out all the good parts of the Unix philosophy and kept all the terrible, unworkable ones.
Lennart Poettering and the systemd morons would be proud. Hell, probably are.
Yup! PowerShell is the classic example of what happens when designers value conceptual purity over pragmatism. They wanted to make shell scripting object oriented. Shell scripting doesn’t need to be object oriented. OO is overkill for something that would mostly be used to write <100 lines of code at at time.