I dev on a Mac and do a lot of 'quality of life' scripting with Bash. I recently had to do something on a PC and figured I'd try out Powershell. I have to say, it was a joy. Dealing with objects instead of text is so refreshing, it really is a game changer especially when you start integrating with COM (e.g. excel).
The only things I found worse:
1 - error handling doesnt bubble in the same way. e.g. I can't do an equivalent of `set -e`, or do `cmd && other_cmd`
2 - return values are very nuanced. If you don't understand how function statement contribute to the result, you will spend a lot of time debugging odd issues
The only things I found worse:
1 - error handling doesnt bubble in the same way. e.g. I can't do an equivalent of `set -e`, or do `cmd && other_cmd`
2 - return values are very nuanced. If you don't understand how function statement contribute to the result, you will spend a lot of time debugging odd issues