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Over the past month I did an experiment of using only powershell, including on my macbook and Linux boxes. I’ve gone back to zsh now though.

The benefit of powershell - the rich object data model - isn’t actually that useful in practice day to day.

The memory usage is ridiculous for a shell.

The killer though is a disregard for economy of expression. The example in the article can be expressed as just “find /path -mtime -3”.

I have kept ps on Windows, i didn’t go back to cmd.exe there but WSL2 is still my default when opening Microsoft Terminal.




> The memory usage is ridiculous for a shell.

I can bring 10 - 30 instances any day in parallel without a glitch and still consuming low amount of mem. Its higher then bash, but again, bash sux and when you have 0 features compared to pwsh you can use lower amount of memory I guess. Bash is ancient, memory was much bigger problem then. Its funny that in age in electron apps we talk about memory when your todo app takes more then anything else.

> The killer though is a disregard for economy of expression.

?

> the rich object data model - isn’t actually that useful in practice day to day.

Its most useful every day feature for me.




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