On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 06:35:14PM +0100, Nicolò Balzarotti wrote: > Bengt Richter <b...@bokr.com> writes: > > > Hi Yasu, > > > > "Just curious", what do you hope will be the effect of your post? > > > Hi Bengt Richter, thanks for asking the same things I had in mind. This > post seems just M$ propaganda, more than a "Is anybody working on the > inclusion of Powershell?" > > From Yasu's mail, when I read: > > I say Powershell is almost synonymous with IT worker rights > > I was really wondering what was happening here. I mean, we are talking > about a M$ product, right? I really can't see how this statement can > hold true. If it means "when I'm _forced_ to work on windows, > powershell is the lest worse thing", then fine. But I don't get how > having it available in guix would help then.
I understand that there may be an atmosphere of suspicion regarding Microsoft within a GNU project, but we should really try to give a more charitable interpretation to messages on the Guix mailing lists, especially if we aren't sure what the sender meant. Remember, Yasu will read your replies, too. I don't use Windows regularly, but Powershell seems *really* cool. It's a very different paradigm than the Unix shell. It seems like it was designed to solve a lot of the limitations and quirks that plague Unix shell scripting. It may be that Powershell won't catch on because shell scripting isn't popular on Windows, but Unix + Powershell sounds amazing, and I've been interested in it for years.
