Post #1308457

2026-02-19 14:54 UTC

@raymaccarthy @blinry Good that the Powershell and dotNET teams already kinda split and opensourced themselves to avoid that :P

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@agowa338@chaos.social 2026-02-19 14:56

@raymaccarthy @blinry Oh and if you've done anything with REST-APIs or transforming file formats (aka mapping objects and such) then PowerShell is definitely killing it. That's where it shines and even outperforms python in my eyes. Everything else it is kinda on-pair with python. Except you actually get working explicit typing (should you want to explicitly type something) + interop with unmanaged code is easier.

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@ShadSterling@mastodon.social 2026-02-19 15:01

@agowa338 @raymaccarthy @blinry the open sourcing of dotNET was largely due to the Mono project, an independent reimplementation that started out as a way to run Silverlight (dotNET browser extensions) on Linux, and grew into a company that could compile C# for iOS, which Microsoft bought, and incrementally merged the Mono and dotNET

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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot 2026-02-19 22:01

@agowa338 @raymaccarthy @blinry have they? Got a link?

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