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0 pointsorwin3y ago0 comments

I feel like powershell hides too much to be used regularly. I have a dozen of small shellscripts and aliases to do basically what PS help me to do when i work on windows (and some), but at least i know how it work behind.

I had to work with Sencha/ExtJS early 2010. It was the same feeling. Yes, it is powerfull, but too much magic happen for something without a clear orientation (at the time, now it is used for data loaded frontend i think). PS i don't understand what it wants me to do.

The language is fine. The interface is now fine, but in 2015 it was the shittiest tty available on modern computers. It's okay since at least early 2021 (when i restarted using windows). I know it should be reasonably better, but i wouldn't trust any PS script written before 2021 to run on my workstation. I run bash scripts i wrote when i started coding.

Still, if you're new to the gig and don't care about free software and commons, you should learn PS (unless you want to work on baremetal or on MC, in this case, bash will be enough).

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sharken3y ago

I recently replaced a bit of code to look up locked files for a file share with SMB cmdlets to do the same.

The performance difference was night and day.

The biggest issue with PowerShell is that PowerShell Core is not yet default on Windows 10/11 and Windows Server. That should be Microsofts highest priority for PowerShell.

sumtechguy3y ago

Then not hobble who can run powershell scripts out of the box. Which makes it seem like a dangerous tool. Then no one wants to use it. Some form of powershell has been there since win7. Yet in one of the versions they decided 'oh only admins can use this unless you run this special command'. So it makes me have to revert to using CMD scripts for some simple things. Because I do not want to have to walk whoever it is thru enabling powershell.

Beltalowda3y ago

> I had to work with Sencha/ExtJS early 2010. It was the same feeling. Yes, it is powerfull, but too much magic happen for something without a clear orientation (at the time, now it is used for data loaded frontend i think). PS i don't understand what it wants me to do.

Bit off-topic, but I worked with ExtJS around the same time, and I found it one of the most confusing development experiences I ever had. "It's so easy, just add this one property to this deeply nested object you're passing to this function!" Thinking back on it, it's a really good example of "simple vs. easy". It didn't help it gave not a peep if you got one of those data structures wrong (capitalisation typo, wrong location, etc.)

Plus in hindsight the whole idea of "OS semantics in your browser!" was never a good one to start with, although that wasn't as obvious to me at the time.

orwinOP3y ago

Yeah, exactly, powershell is easy, but not simple!

ExtJS (on netbeans with windows server 2004) was always my worst development experience, it was my first internship too. That's probably the reason why it took so long (and a bag of money) for me to try JS, an IDE and developing on windows again (I only used Windows for CTFs and AndroidStudio).

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