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> Credit where credit is due, we all WISH nix had something like PowerShell.

Who is "we". I've worked exclusively on a windows stack so used powershell on the job. But at home, I use bash. I don't want something like powershell in nix and don't use powershell on nix even though it's been available on nix for many years now.

> Passing strings from program to program is a pain

You can argue it's the basis of computer science and also pretty efficient.

> passing around .NET objects instead is a great step forward, as can be seen by the several attempts at similar shells passing around JSON objects.

Passing around objects can be slow, inefficient, wasteful, etc though it can be convenient.

If you are on a windows stack then go with powershell. If not, then go with bash. Nobody should be on a windows stack but sadly, much of the business world has been captured by microsoft.




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