Re: PowerShell core?

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 06:35:14PM +0100, Nicolò Balzarotti wrote:
> Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi Yasu,
> >
> > "Just curious", what do you hope will be the effect of your post?
> >
> Hi Bengt Richter, thanks for asking the same things I had in mind.  This
> post seems just M$ propaganda, more than a "Is anybody working on the
> inclusion of Powershell?"
> 
> From Yasu's mail, when I read:
> > I say Powershell is almost synonymous with IT worker rights
> 
> I was really wondering what was happening here.  I mean, we are talking
> about a M$ product, right?  I really can't see how this statement can
> hold true.  If it means "when I'm _forced_ to work on windows,
> powershell is the lest worse thing", then fine.  But I don't get how
> having it available in guix would help then.

I understand that there may be an atmosphere of suspicion regarding
Microsoft within a GNU project, but we should really try to give a more
charitable interpretation to messages on the Guix mailing lists,
especially if we aren't sure what the sender meant. Remember, Yasu will
read your replies, too.

I don't use Windows regularly, but Powershell seems *really* cool. It's
a very different paradigm than the Unix shell. It seems like it was
designed to solve a lot of the limitations and quirks that plague Unix
shell scripting. It may be that Powershell won't catch on because shell
scripting isn't popular on Windows, but Unix + Powershell sounds
amazing, and I've been interested in it for years.