I dont use powershell.
I use ZSH on My Gaming PC cause its POSIX and and has autocorrect and auto complete also with CachyOS They replicate fish features.
I use the Default good'ol bash on my Laptop running Debian that's on Life support because I dont care.
I tried Fish but didnt like the no POSIX compliance(ik they wanna fix POSIX but its annoying)
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I've used powershell in previous jobs and if you learn it really well I cannot deny it is super powerful.
For a college project, a friend of mine somehow made a hexadecimal file dumper with it, with formatting and everything (think like what you would see in wireshark) in one, reasonably long, line of powershell.
However I'm just not a big fan of it personally for syntactical reasons (even with the syntax being super logical) and much prefer bash, or other unix-like native shells. I've been thinking about taking zsh for a spin recently to see what it's like.
I tried to use it for admin in a Windows environment, but half the modules I needed wouldn't work in Linux which made it pretty much useless.
i just wish bash had structured data and basic types, that's it
I do, but only for work. There are certain tasks you can't do easily with just api calls.
What's wrong with bash? Something missing or not to your liking? It can be configured
Manipulating data in bash is bad.
Base 64 encode all your array variables then decode them when needed
Real
It has atrocious error handling, and there's no reasons why arrays should only be 1D.
Maybe it can, but with fish, it does what I want right out of the box, and I don't have to spend time configuring it.
I use fish via konsole however I still use bash as my login shell for stability reasons.
I use zsh on my work computers and fish on my desktop. Zsh is still POSIX compatible so is more bash-like. Fish is nice. When I use bash or zsh I want to use oh-my-zsh but with fish I haven't found myself wanting anything extra like that.
I use xonsh.