alt Hacker NewsI thought I would like Powershell but it was another big disappointment for me.
It's got a lot of the unpleasant clunkiness that something like the Bourne shell owes to decades of compatibility, but Microsoft doesn't have that excuse. Despite this, it's gratuitously incompatible with itself, I had code which worked fine, we upgraded Powershell oh, now that won't work, just fix all the scripts. Crazy. It clearly wants an NPM-style experience where you seamlessly incorporate other people's work, but then it doesn't really deliver this well and so you often end up manually copy-pasting.
If Powershell was a one man project and this was their Beta I'd say it is promising. But it's a project from the Microsoft corporation for 20 years. Do better.
This is my opinion as well. Powershell and object shells are much better and the way to go imo. Also Powershell code is fast owing to running on the .NET VM.
But the actual UX is just convoluted and horrible. For example, the person who decided that commands without a ; at the end of the line should just vomit their outputs to the enclosing function's clearly hasn't heard of the principle of least surprise.
PS just does so many plain weird and unintuitive things, which is worsened by the fact that it looks like a boring old programming language, while clearly not being one.