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@saxnot @fullywoolly powershell is honestly a lot better than it’s rep would give it. at least on windows (unix powershell is rather disappointing). but on windows its really fun to write. you have a full programming language but also the convenience of shell

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@stag @saxnot @fullywoolly and a bunch of shell tools that badly emulate the ones you're used to and spew errors from their deepest .net guts on anything unsupported
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@snacks @saxnot @fullywoolly do you mean 3rd party modules? as far as i’ve seen the builtins are pretty well supported, ive never had them crash like that

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@stag @saxnot @fullywoolly i think it was the built in curl or wget where i just got errors from the .net keyvaluepair
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@stag @fullywoolly @saxnot i think ome of those has a built in clone
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@snacks @fullywoolly @saxnot never had anything weird with invoke-webrequest, but thats just anecdotal. anyways i think they replaced the curl alias (to iwr) with an actual curl.exe build now lol

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