04:27 <ec> looovlies

04:32 <jfhbrook> I just ported a shell script to powershell

04:32 <jfhbrook> it was actually a pretty good experience

04:33 <ec> yeah, I've heard almost excusively good things about PowerShell

04:33 <jfhbrook> as compared to bash it's really consistent and it hits this sweet spot between being a real language and being able to do shell-y things

04:34 <jfhbrook> its text processing isn't as natural as with bash, otoh powershell can do iterables of actual types

04:34 <jfhbrook> there's analogs for most things though, and with the wsl you can bash -c everything else

04:37 <jfhbrook> the help seems better too

04:37 <jfhbrook> like the interactive help I mean, man pages are always pretty dense

04:43 <joepie91> [06:34] <jfhbrook> its text processing isn't as natural as with bash, otoh powershell can do iterables of actual types

04:43 <joepie91> this is my #1 annoyance with Bash and all the other Linux-y things

04:43 <joepie91> "everything is a string"

04:45 <jfhbrook> Right everything is bytes and it’s up to you to bestow meaning onto them

04:45 <ec> check out tulip

04:45 <joepie91> jfhbrook: which in practice really doesn't work at all :D

04:45 <ec> it was a really strange, functional, type-inferred language

04:46 <jfhbrook> Right joepie91 I end up having to regexp my way through a bunch of problems

04:46 <ec> but that drew a *lot* from shells — brevity, modularization and composability, basic order of operations and input encouraging you to think, and type, left-to-right, so you stay in flow at an interactive interface …

04:49 <jfhbrook> Interesting

04:54 <jfhbrook> +5 insightful