Comment by IdiotSavage
2 days ago
> Another important feature of a tool like this is the ability to tolerate errors: I can't imagine a Linux today that would be able to even boot if the shell was extra pedantic about errors. A lot of mostly irrelevant things routinely fail on boot and during normal operation. Stamping them all out is an arduous...
You seem to be implying PowerShell aborts on any error. That's not the case:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsof...
No, I didn't imply that. PowerShell introduces many different error modes that aren't possible in Unix Shell because it tries to operate on structured messages, has a type system, has a bunch of built-in functionality for accessing various aspects of the system that in Unix Shell are delegated to external utilities.