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535 points raddad | 3 comments | 30 Mar 16 11:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.4s | source
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outworlder ◴[30 Mar 16 16:32 UTC] No.11390508[source]▶
Hell has indeed frozen over, and that's good news! From the screenshots, that actually looks like a proper terminal too.

I wonder what will happen to Powershell now.

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vdnkh ◴[30 Mar 16 16:56 UTC] No.11390802[source]▶
>I wonder what will happen to Powershell now

For Windows shops (like my current job), it will most definitely be sticking around

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1. TheOsiris ◴[30 Mar 16 17:01 UTC] No.11390859[source]▶
has PS been adopted that widely? the syntax always struck me as weird
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2. vdnkh ◴[30 Mar 16 17:06 UTC] No.11390913[source]▶
For automated building/deploying .NET projects on Windows you have very little choice. Powershell has its own libraries to invoke MSBuild and it's integration with .NET saves a ton of effort on more complex tasks (like parallelization, background jobs, and service management). Is it irreplaceable? Maybe not, but it's clearly the most powerful tool for the job.
3. PatentTroll ◴[30 Mar 16 18:21 UTC] No.11391668[source]▶
PS is actually pretty awesome