PowerShell

“I have a hard time agreeing with anyone who says that PowerShell's syntax is more intuitive than bash”

“It would have been nice if MS offered something that people can choose to install, but its far from a deal breaker”

“I am faster as I don't have to lookup for params due to fantastic discovery and usability features.”

“Powershell is still indispensable for things like deploying build artifacts to production servers.”

“Powershell is so good that I find it strange it didn't get to be default at least in some Linux distributins”

“a lot of the things that makes PowerShell cool on Windows doesn't actually work in Linux or macOS”

“PS is really powerful for Windows OS level concepts and enterprise software that have good modules”

“it's mainly its verbose command names and new-to-me syntax that have made me put off learning it so far”

“Once you get used to passing objects between commands - not just text - the thought of using a Unix-y shell feels like visiting the past.”

“I love knowing that a "Get-Foo" function in a library I've never before isn't going to have side-effects”

“The shell is just a shell, if a certain thing you're looking to configure doesn't have an easy cmdlet, that doesn't mean powershell is bad”

“powershell begins to do something close to shine - the cli mixes data and commands in a way that we really shouldn't have to do”

“There's no need for grep or awk or sed in pwsh, because the output of a shell command is an object”

“PowerShell gives them an easy way to interact with Registry, event log, WMI and other facilities in a structured way.”

“absolutely insane for everyday interactive use, especially given how many places Microsoft applied their usual tactic”

“PowerShell got it half-right but blundered by talking in binary blobs of .NET objects instead of structured text”

“I have deepseek or grok write bash-likes in pwsh often enough to wonder what sort of things you're doing in pwsh...”

“the object approach, and having .NET, DLLs and COM as first class primitives is quite flexible”

“I hate powershell but if you actually need a quick, just works on win/mac/linux… powershell does the trick.”

“I kind-of like the idea of PowerShell, it's just that I dislike almost all other aspects of it and around it.”

“having everything be an object with properties and methods, vs having to chop up and parse and pipe text is quite nice”

“A follows-best-practices command/script has all the discoverability of MCP with all the composability and local execution of a CLI tool.”

“PowerShell is available for Linux and MacOS. Which means you can have the tool you like and run on a non-MS platform.”

“PowersHell... yuck. It's like MS decided to reinvent bash but in the most bureaucratic and obfuscated way they could.”

“Powershell cmdlet macros (and the resultant parameter consistency with flags and verbs) are a great example”

“Yes it can be done and it's helpful for cross platform with windows but I wouldn't consider it a first class citizen.”

“passing structured data instead of text is really nice because the data stays shaped/predictable/inspectable all the way through your code”

“I'm glad Microsoft invested more in the CLI with Windows Terminal, OpenSSH in the default install, winget, PowerShell, etc.”

“PowerShell is so slow that you can both compile and run the equivalent C# program before PowerShell finishes launching.”

“I absolutely hate the ergonomics and a lot of the interactions are awkward for people not used to it”

“Powershell is slow to start (~1-8 seconds on my PCs, even without a profile.ps1) and it performs pretty poorly in general”

“I am constantly bit by issues with filenames having [ or ] in them and end up having to pass -LiteralPath to everything”

“It is really well designed and the way objects are piped between commands is brilliant and very powerful.”

“It is amazing until you run into one of these insane behaviors that somehow nobody ever fixed.”

“by FAR the worst thing is that often times you'll type a command and try to tab/arrow complete an argument”

“becomes fairly easy to use with shell history and autocomplete, which, incidentally, it does very well”

“power shell tried to name everything with a self-documenting name and the results are impossible to memorize”

“For a scripting language, I think it makes sense. Microsoft deciding to alias wget to Invoke-WebRequest does make for a rather annoying side effect”

“isn't the first choice and seems like an example deliberately chosen to make PS look more awkward than it is”

“I have a distaste for the verboseness of PowerShell, but I also have concerns with the attempt to bake in complex objects into the pipeline.”