Don't get me started on powershell!

For one, it's the right arrow key for complete for most things (but tab for others).

But by FAR the worst thing is that often times you'll type a command and try to tab/arrow complete an argument, and the module/dll or whatever is not loaded into memory, and so theres some blocking operation and loads the module which takes 10+ seconds. This happens to me almost every day.

I do love powershell otherwise though, after 20+ years in bash, there is actually some things to like about it.

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jknutson 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If you like Powershell but have some complaints, you might find nushell to be the best of both worlds. My elevator pitch for it would be imagine the object-oriented / typed nature of Powershell, minus the verbosity and windows-centric design of it. As someone who develops on and for windows computers, nushell is a real breath of fresh air.

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naikrovek 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I have a command line program at work which outputs json. Pure JSON in all situations.

I thought nushell would be able to make sense of that and display it semi-nicely.

Nushell pukes on it, errors out, and doesn’t even show the output of the command. As far as sins go for a shell, not showing the output of the program it just ran is very high among them.

nushell had its chance with me.

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jknutson 5 hours ago | parent [-]

With external commands you might have to collect the output of the program before doing any sort of manipulation. I’ve been got by this before too; the fix is simple (for me at least). `external.exe | collect | from json` et voila

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orthoxerox 29 minutes ago | parent [-]

This doesn't look like a pit of success design.

	▲	jknutson 26 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Well, every shell has its quirks and gotchas. I’ve found nushell’s to be the least intrusive and most workable thus far.

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RajT88 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have a deep and abiding love of Powershell but you are spot on.

It is amazing until you run into one of these insane behaviors that somehow nobody ever fixed.

(Some are actually fixed finally in 7.x - like issues with filenames with grave characters in them)

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naikrovek 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I like PowerShell too, but in what universe other than ours (clearly the worst one) is it even possible for loading a module to take more time than the blink of an eye?

Microsoft should find it embarrassing how long it takes powershell to load a module. Pushing <tab> to autocomplete a cmdlet name should never take more than maybe 100 milliseconds.

	▲	estetlinus an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Reminds of why I sold my Windows. One day I just had enough of things breaking in all the colors of the rainbow. For every problem I have on my macOS, some poor Windows user have experienced 50 non-Googleable errors. I do like Powershell though.

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cowlby 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Powershell right arrow is madness… just found out F2 shows all the options though and finally it’s a little more tolerable

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nunez 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Been the case since forever. Very annoying