Comment by embedding-shape
2 days ago
I'm curious, have any good examples of projects in the ~1K LOC range of PowerShell, so I could get a taste for how something like that would look like? Beyond that I tend to go for "real" programming languages, or just start with Babashka, but still curious to see projects other PowerShell fans would consider "well written/designed" :)
It never gets old - the number of times I have to roll my eyes and chuckle whenever someone "shares bash tricks" (like the OP) or says stuff like "powershell needs to become more ubiquitous" on HN. Seriously, have you folks not been vexed sufficiently with these things? Both bash/zsh and powershell are enormously frustrating and quirky in real, practical tasks. babashka in comparison is so much more pragmatic, simple and straightforward. I really don't want to become an expert in whatever - be that bash, powershell or anything else, I just want to get the shit done, I don't want to learn "tricks" and "magic", I just want to be able to close my laptop at 5PM and stop thinking about work. How the heck have we normalized "intellectual complexity" instead of "stupid simplicity", I still don't get it.