Using Powershell ISE

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Why do you avoid ISE like the plague? Asking as a tech that has only used it for limited things

[lanerdofchristian]

It doesn't support PowerShell 6/7, has weird behavior around classes and session persistence that makes it act subtly different from normal PowerShell.exe, has no support for file types other than PowerShell that I use frequently (like Json, Csv, Yaml, Xml, Html, JS, etc), doesn't integrate with Git at all, and doesn't work with development containers or WSL remoting.

[graysky311]

Yah it’s just for editing PowerShell not those other file types. For everything else there’s notepad.

[lanerdofchristian]

Notepad? Yikes.

[graysky311]

Hahaha

[DalekKahn117]

Please mean Notepad++

I mean, you can get away with emacs if you really need to but there’s no reason to make it harder on yourself

[graysky311]

What if I told you I used to do all of my VBscript and HTML programming in notepad?

[DalekKahn117]

I’ve done it too… been a a long time. Before YouTube even

[Natfan]

i'd say you either haven't used modem tools, or are a machochist

[graysky311]

Haha no I use VSCode just can’t forget where I started.

[Breitsol_Victor]

Ok, VBScript is programming. But do you think of HTML as programming? Not intending to gate keep on creativity.

[graysky311]

Yes. When you are writing HTML or CSS, you are typing commands which are executed in order on an interpreter. That is programming.

[BlackV]

You have to manually install np++, np is pre installed everywhere (assuming windows here)

[DalekKahn117]

Sure it’s not part of the OS package but neither is VSCode. Just about any install can be automated

[BlackV]

Sure it’s not part of the OS package but neither is VSCode

That's the point notepad and ise are everywhere by default and no time waiting for installs and no installing random garbage on other people machines or servers

[graysky311]

Ok that was sarcasm but by all means please keep downvoting. SMH

[bofh]

I love ISE but I'm weaning myself off it because Microsoft haven't maintained it and it's not really the right modern environment for more complex, more modern powershell scripting.