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535 points raddad | 1 comments | 30 Mar 16 11:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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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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1. 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.