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.Net CLI, so ... powershell?

This looks pretty cool. I wish powershell were slightly easier to set up and use, and that there was a repo for extensions other than "google it and then download".



Have you seen the capabilities enabled by the PowerShell Gallery[1] (script and module repository) and the PowerShellGet cmdlets[2] (for interacting with repositories like PowerShell Gallery)? It looks like a useful approach to solving this particular issue.

[1] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn807169.aspx [2] https://www.powershellgallery.com/


One of the major tenets of this is (from what I can tell) its multiplatform-ness: it would be able to ship as the tooling in the .NET Core release for any platform.

Powershell is certainly a cool shell, but it is a shell, and that makes it much less likely to be ported+packaged everywhere (Pash exists, but I don't know whether it exists as, say, an Ubuntu PPA.) Whereas, when you release a language, you kind of want its tooling to go wherever it goes.


No

.NET CLI is a set of cross platform command line tools for making .NET applications.


Powershell is a shell that runs on the .Net virtual machine.

Scott is showing off command-line tools for creating and compiling C# projects.




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