18 engineers on Hacker News describe using PowerShell first-hand: 4 endorse it, 5 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“I decided to learn PowerShell. After a week or so of scripting with PowerShell and seeing how intuitive and robust the syntax is”
endorse · personal · Aurelius108 · 2024-09-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Anyway, yeah I absolutely despise using it. It's syntax is atrocious. It's key words aren't memorable in the least.”
regret · production · swozey · 2024-04-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“using powershell to remove paint3d was what ultimately saved my bacon.”
endorse · personal · sickofparadox · 2024-01-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using PowerShell to automate various tasks with differing levels of complexity, and I've had a lot of success so far.”
endorse · personal · sidpatil · 2019-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Lately, I've been using more and more Powershell which I traditionally disliked... The one issue is how rediculously slow it runs.”
mixed · personal · 4thaccount · 2018-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Having used DSC and powershell remoting extensively, these create as many problems as they solve. Nothing works smoothly.”
regret · production · setquk · 2018-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I just like my scripts picking keys 'select' and 'where' rather than scraping with grep / awk etc.”
endorse · personal · 2 yr · nailer · 2018-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Powershell since v2, but to me, it's essentially a walled garden automation environment.”
regret · production · 9 yr · tremon · 2018-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The poor documentation and general clumsiness and verbosity of Powershell are merely rubbing salt in the wound at that point.”
regret · personal · Silhouette · 2016-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Python and Powershell for IT admin and JS for frontend”
neutral · production · CornySensei · 2025-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I write some powershell for azure automation to help IT operations from time to time”
neutral · production · Quothling · 2024-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When I need to provision anything I have a powershell script that interacts with Azure CLI.”
neutral · production · danielovichdk · 2023-07-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we still handle quite a bit of internal data or services in Python and Powershell”
neutral · production · moksly · 2021-08-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“mostly PowerShell which we do all automation in... now... pwsh with Invoke-Build to run CI/CD stuff.”
neutral · production · majkinetor · 2019-05-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have to write a bunch of powershell script to get it to work the way I want.”
neutral · production · zeeshanejaz · 2019-01-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I think the only things we use Azure for is the Directory, and Functions to run some PowerShell.”
neutral · production · 7ewis · 2017-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Last time I tried, mklink was only valid in cmd.exe.”
neutral · personal · toyg · 2016-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?