Comment by fainpul

13 days ago

PowerShell is pretty good for shell scripting.

  iwr https://example.com

You also have arbitrary precision integers and all the other stuff from .NET

  $b = [BigInt]::Parse('10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000')

Powershell has god awful syntax though. There's no way I'd want to do anything remotely significant with it.

  • PowerShell’s syntax Is just fine. Very few special characters, minimal escaping, easy to read. If you understand PowerShell semantics, the syntax comes quite naturally.