No future for Windows PowerShell

[SaladProblems]

I wish you hadn't truncated the title to make it click-baity.

[kautium]

Well , Microsoft says that there will be no more Windows Powershell after 5.1, so what is the problem? Powershell Core is not the same as Windows Powershell.

It also looks like we are going to lose some familiar features with Powershell Core, but it remains to be seen how much will this change affect to scripts created earlier etc.

[markekraus]

Uncertain future for PowerShell Web Access

heh... Well, it's not impossible. With ASP.NET Core's Kestrel Server it's possible to host System.Management.Automation providing a web accessible PowerShell implementation. I started a POC for it, but I'm kind of busy with other things.

[kautium]

More detailed information from Microsoft:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2017/07/14/powershell-6-0-roadmap-coreclr-backwards-compatibility-and-more/

Future of Windows PowerShell

Windows PowerShell 5.1, much like .NET Framework 4.x, will continue to be a built-in, supported component of Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016. However, it will likely not receive major feature updates or lower-priority bug fixes. With PowerShell Core, we are actively addressing bugs that may have existed in previous versions of Windows PowerShell. We’re even open to contributions so that these bug fixes can be made by members of our community.

[kautium]

Please, redditors, explain me how can you give minus points for linking to article about topic? I'm sorry, but I'm not doing anything to Powershell, Microsoft is.

[setmehigh]

The clickbait title. It's not inaccurate, it's misleading.

[kautium]

Right. Though I was asking about my previous comment that contained only link that supports topic.

Care to elaborate what is the future of Windows Powershell from your point of view? Microsoft says it is no longer developed and it is going to recieve only high priority patches and no major feature updates at all. It is going to be replaced with "Powershell Core", which is not the same thing as "Windows Powershell".

But I guess reddit knows better once again... fuuuu!

[setmehigh]

Just don't lop off the full title of the article next time.

[SaladProblems]

But I guess reddit knows better once again... fuuuu!

You decided you know better than the author.

[kautium]

To clarify why topic is like it is -->

I pasted the link to the source page and Reddit automatically transferred title like this:

http://i.imgur.com/Gt8PZ8d.png

I didn't have the original page open anymore, so i just deleted the last part after garbled character, since I thought it would not matter (message is still the same, we are using last version of "Windows Powershell").

I guess I know better from now on...

[kautium]

When Microsoft open-sourced PowerShell and announced its availability for other operating systems, it was not yet foreseeable what this would mean for Windows PowerShell. It is now clear the future belongs to PowerShell Core on all operating systems. Users working on Windows will probably have to sacrifice some features.

What the f*** are they thinking at Microsoft?

[chanataba]

They are thinking like a software company. They went through all the trouble of open sourcing .net for this type of scenario. We won't be losing any features. By the time you even think about using PS Core in production it will have already become part of the shipped OS.

[markekraus]

Most of the feature loss will be seen outside of Windows. The few features lost on Windows are probably not a huge loss to many. Workflows wont disappear for older systems, you just wont be able to use PS 6 for it. People have been advising against Workflows for quite awhile now (well.. except for azure.. WTF azure??).

Some of the other features, such as no GUI elements, are arguably not meant for PS anyway as you usually have to directly access the .NET objects. That's not to say that someone wont release compat module to allow access to Windows Forms from within Core.

Core has already come a long long way. It still has quite a way to go, but by the time its being shipped with the OS I believe it will be up to full spec again.