When to Reach for Another Language

PowerShell is at its best as glue: files, Windows, other programs and quick-run applications; a script that grows past a few hundred lines, needs a web page or a phone app, has to run fast over millions of items or runs where PowerShell can't is a sign to look at C#, Python or JavaScript, and the languages work together, passing JSON, rather than taking sides.

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Cheat sheet for the lesson When to Reach for Another Language: PowerShell is at its best as glue: files, Windows, other programs and quick-run applications; a script that grows past a few hundred lines, needs a web page or a phone app, has to run fast over millions of items or runs where…
Category
PowerShell
Level
Journeyman
Tags
c, compiled-program, JavaScript, powershell, python, Static Typing