That actually makes a lot of sense. I never even second guessed how tedious all the parsing is. But then, as others have said here, as soon as the task at hand reaches a level of complexity beyond grepping, piping and so on I just very naturally move to Python.

On a different note, there are ways to teach bash json. I recall seeing a hacker conference talk on it some time ago, but didn’t pay close attention.

Mh, it probably depends a lot where you’re coming from. I don’t need Powershell or have a reason to learn it in my daily work, and I mostly use WSL to access Linux shells everywhere else. And on top of that, I don’t understand why Powershell needs a completely different command set to basically every other shell. It’s a biased take, but I have not had an interaction with Powershell that I liked, nor have I seen a feature that made me want to look into it more.

What’s the killer feature, would you say? Care giving me the fanboy-pitch?

edit. Oh and I forgot, the tab completion in Powershell is so incredibly dumb. I never ever in my life want to cycle through all items in a path, and much less have it be case insensitive. Come to think of it, this might be the origin of most of my disdain. ;)

WSL has changed the game pretty significantly, don’t you agree? It’s not perfect, but allows me to stay firm in my resolve never to learn powershell.

I was thinking training montage, with Eye of the Tiger and everything.

In all seriousness, picture your dude’s face! He will have forgotten all about that bet (he might have even now) and one regular sunny day you CASUALLY walk on over to that conveniently located stage; “hold that drink for me for a second, honey”, and BAM. He won’t know what’s even happening, crying into both of your milk shakes in joy and confusion.

Plus, you’ll be super buff. There’s no downside, really.

You should start training in secret immediately! Stages are easy enough to come by once you’re ready.

More like all the research teams.

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Just been through the fire of having to clone my system to a new SSD and no, startup repair did nothing for me.

Not only did you write all of that, but you made me read all of it, too. Very entertaining!

What a world it would be were that a possibility.

Sadly, I neither see a content creators’ union on the horizon anytime soon, nor do I see individual creators die a martyr’s death, financially speaking…