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[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 61 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You expected your content to be downloaded by curl

It was me, Invoke-WebRequest!

[–] ShittyKopper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 2 years ago (1 children)

the only thing i know about powershell is that the linux binary is named pwsh which i learned the hard way after writing pow and then accidentally tab completing poweroff and shutting down my pc

in fairness that might've been a sign

[–] RepulsiveDog4415@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago

I just learned you can use powershell your default shell. Ngl i'm kinda impressed...

[–] aluminium@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Powershell is actually powerful. You can write full on WPF grafical user interfaces with it.

[–] Synthead@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Reminder that you can use any CLI interpreter as your shell. IPython, Pry, PHP, or whatever you want.

[–] muzzle@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Of course you can, but why would you?

[–] Trollception@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

It was my stepping stone from being an IT Support tech to a traditional Software Developer. Yes it's not as easy to work with as a traditional language or as fast but it's more flexible and often less verbose.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 years ago

thank you! i've literally felt the same ever since powershell introduced the icon