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0 pointstangotaylor8mo ago0 comments

I could but no one else on my team (which is used to Linux) would touch my scripts.

It’s just too foreign for Linux devs whereas it ships with Windows.

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Proprietary 'shell' vs. linux DIY/customized setup.

There are a multiple publically accessible/usable sources which can be found via search engine(s) to extend bash / unix shell functionality based on points discussed in topic link.

few article link topic snippits:

* approaches to autocompletion : [0][1]

* 'man' command and/or cli option -h to cli command shows 'docstring' / options

* jq resources for shell plugin[2]

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[0] https://faun.pub/configure-bash-auto-completion-tab-completi...

[1] https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html

[2] https://github.com/fiatjaf/awesome-jq

nojito8mo ago

Powershell is Open Source

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell

jdmg948mo ago

that is a thing that started under Nadella's leadership, during the 90s it was a different story.

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rastignack8mo ago

Nowadays a lot of people script in python

general17268mo ago

Yeah sure after they are done fighting with venv or why this scripts written in a different version of Python behaves differently on this computer...

During scripting they can be constantly annoyed by Python's indentation errors. Really awesome stuff when your syntax is whitespace dependent.

sargstuff7mo ago

> ... behaves differently on this computer...

vs. in linux, running powershell scripts under a virtualized instance of windows to avoid linux OS / windows OS differences issues?

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other extreme end of the 'whitespace' spectrum:

APL : no white space / single character instead of multicharacter programming language tokens. Maximum expressiveness without any need for whitespace!

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