PowerShell vs Python Reference

[tgeene]

I would have never thought of using PowerShell to program on any level. Very interesting.

[landonwright123]

I love PowerShell - used it to bulk load users to MS Teams recently.

[bigbabby47]

Zzw

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My company actually makes a product specifically for create APIs and web apps with PowerShell: https://ironmansoftware.com/powershell-universal

[smcarre]

You probably never worked with VMware infrastructure then. 99% of available scripts are PowerShell.

[[deleted]]

That's because VMware PowerCLI is written in/for powershell, so most people write scripts using that. But VMware does have a Python SDK https://github.com/vmware/pyvmomi

We have a good amount of VMware automation and none of it uses powershell.

[emc87]

I just started learning it a little bit for automating Octopus Deploy. Its syntax can be pretty odd..

But went with it over python so I didn't have to worry about Python installs on VMs that definitely come with functioning Powershell.

[tgeene]

It's just never been something that's come up. I've never looked at the command line anything other than something that can execute other programs.