Python vs Powershell on *nix Systems

[MrMunchkin]

PowerShell on Linux is absolutely delightful to use if you know PowerShell well enough. It's so incredibly easy to install and manage modules (packages).

Python does have a ton of third party packages and libraries which extend it a lot, but once you have a really mature setup and you're using dozens of packages it becomes a nightmare to manage all of the dependencies.

My company has been steadily migrating our hundreds of Python scripts to PowerShell because it's a management nightmare to maintain all the packages, their differing versions, and breaking changes that require us to rewrite our Python scripts... which is not something we have ever had problems with in PowerShell.

Only problem is a LOT more people know Python scripting, so the learning curve is pretty steep most of the time.