PowerShell - Programming language

PowerShell is an open source programming language created in 2006 by Jeffrey Snover.

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PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language. Initially a Windows component only, known as Windows PowerShell, it was made open-source and cross-platform on 18 August 2016 with the introduction of PowerShell Core. The former is built on .NET Framework while the latter on .NET Core. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: programming language
PowerShell is developed on GitHub and has 44,220 stars
There are at least 161,144 PowerShell repos on GitHub
Early development of PowerShell happened in Microsoft
PowerShell is written in C#, PowerShell, XML, YAML, Markdown, XSD, JSON, XAML, Bourne shell, SVG, CSV, Razor, Dockerfile, XSLT, plantuml, Python
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 25k users using PowerShell in 33k repos on GitHub
There are 201,622 members in the PowerShell subreddit
There are 159 Project Euler users using PowerShell
In the 2021 StackOverflow developer survey PowerShell programmers reported a median salary of $68,824. 11% of respondents reported using PowerShell. 8,871 programmers reported using PowerShell, and 4,896 said they wanted to use it
Explore PowerShell snippets on Rosetta Code
PowerShell appears in the TIOBE Index
PowerShell LSP implementation
Monaco package for syntax highlighting PowerShell
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for PowerShell
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for PowerShell
Learn PowerShell on exercism.
There is 1 Jupyter Kernel for PowerShell
There is a central package repository for PowerShell
Indeed.com has 19,576 matches for "powershell developer".
See also: (17 related languages) Perl, C#, DIGITAL Command Language, SQL, Tcl, Puppet, JScript, VBScript, Linux, ASCII, awk, grep, sed, XML, Assembly CLI, Office Open XML, Bash
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Example from Riju:

Write-Host "Hello, world!"

Example from hello-world:

'Hello World'

Example from the Hello World Collection:

# Hello World in Microsoft Powershell

'Hello World!'

Example from Linguist:

#!/usr/bin/env pwsh

# source:  https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShellStandard/blob/3436bfc162d6804dd11d1d76c4faff486b4b405d/build.ps1

param (
    [Parameter(ParameterSetName="Clean")][switch]$Clean,
    [Parameter(ParameterSetName="Test")][switch]$Test
)

import-module $PSScriptRoot/PowerShellStandard.psm1 -force

if ( $Clean ) {
    Start-Clean
    return
}

Start-Build

if ( $Test ) {
    Invoke-Test
}

Example from Wikipedia:

name value1 value2
name -Param1 value1 -Param2 value2

PowerShell Keywords

begin break catch class continue data define do dynamicparam else elseif end exit filter finally for foreach from function if in param process return switch throw trap try until using var while workflow parallel sequence inlinescript configuration

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Standard Library	✓	Write-Host "Hello, World!"
Conditionals	✓
Switch Statements	✓
Functions	✓
Exceptions	✓
Classes	✓
While Loops	✓
MultiLine Comments	✓	<# A comment #>	<# #>
Strings	✓		'
Assignment	✓		=
Print() Debugging	✓		echo
Line Comments	✓	# A comment	#
Comments	✓
Semantic Indentation	X