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posted by martyb on Monday April 08 2019, @11:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the Powers-Hell? dept.

Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7

Microsoft has just announced PowerShell 7, a new major release that comes only a few days after the company originally introduced version 6.2

And while it naturally makes more sense for the company to roll out PowerShell 6.3 rather than a whole new version 7.0, the company explains in a blog post that it's all as part of the efforts to align the versions of all platforms.

Steve Lee, Principal Software Engineer Manager, PowerShell, explains that Microsoft noticed a growing usage pattern on Linux, but not on Windows.

"Windows usage has not been growing as significantly, surprising given that PowerShell was popularized on the Windows platform," Lee explains. [...] The next version of PowerShell will thus be available on Windows, Linux, and macOS, and the company explains it'll be available with LTS (Long Term Servicing) and non-LTS plans.

Also at ZDNet.

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  • (Score: 2) by gawdonblue on Tuesday April 09 2019, @10:26PM (1 child)

    by gawdonblue (412) on Tuesday April 09 2019, @10:26PM (#827143)

    A consistently implemented object oriented scripting language that works

    I'm calling bullshit on an "object oriented scripting language that works". OO is a paradigm that works, barely, in GUIs but sucks for nearly every other application. Unfortunately most people learn it these days as the only way to program, and I have had to deal with idiot contractors trying to implement "proper OO" in things as unsuitable as PL/SQL (hint why not to do this is in its name) and shell scripting.

    Why do some people want to take something simple & reliable and fuck it over with stupid layers of abstraction and complex dependencies?

    Fucking Poetterings everywhere.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @09:50PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @09:50PM (#828302)

    Devuan's tor daemon requires systemd now, at least on ceres/ascii. Figured this is as good a place to warn as any.