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Why Microsoft open sourced PowerShell and ported it to Linux (www.cio.com)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In the comments section of a recent post I found out that Windows PowerShell had been ported to Linux. Had no clue it was a thing.

Went looking and found this old article attempting to explain why they did it. Not remotely interested in giving up Bash for PowerShell, but I thought it was interesting enough to share. The article seems to be from 2016.

I have never been more tempted to check the NSFW box, but I'll leave it open for now unless a mod complains. :-D

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I work on both Linux and windows machines for some software projects. It's nice to be able to write powershell helper scripts and have it work on both.

[–] corsicanguppy 1 points 4 days ago

have it work on both.

Here's the thing. It won't.