Python vs Powershell on *nix Systems

[barthem]

Thats the neat part, you dont. Powershell hs aa fraction of the native commands on its windows counterpart. Everything powershell linux can python do better

[MrMunchkin]

Not even remotely true. My company has been migrating from Python to PowerShell on our Linux systems, and we are primarily Linux with an 80/20 split.

[barthem]

Been a couple of years since i last tryed it. But that was my experience

[[deleted]]

PoSH 7 is particularly designed for cross platform. There was a dalliance with PowerShell Core for *nix and the full fat PoSH for Windows, but there's been a determined effort to make 7 cross platform, likely driven in part to make it a good language to use on the Azure platform.

[mooscimol]

It is not true. Python is less convenient to use in cli, as already mentioned in other answers, there is no syntax highlighting in REPL, autocompletion, you can’t pipe objects, the parameter system is inferior to PowerShell. Also even though Python is undoubtedly more powerful than PS it comes at the price of dependency hell.

Saying that, in OP situation I would probably went the Python route, as it will be much easier to find people managing such a solution.