I like the sound of your dream, but I don't think there's much commercial return on making a fun to play with 8-bit home computer environment. That's what Raspberry Pi wanted to be, and instead it became "cheap web browser host" and geek paperweight. The PS team is small, their real goal seem to be to encourage you to Azure through managing it with PS from any OS.

It would be up to "the community" to make modules to do this kind of thing, which would be possible if anyone wanted to, but unlikely to ship with Windows.

> putting some of the most popular routines as built-in commands would be pretty awesome.

Microsoft's push is to avoid more "bloat" by leaning more heavily on optional modules installed from the PS Gallery. But `group-object` is a builtin for doing a kind of SQL GROUP BY operation, and Measure-Object just gained a -StandardDeviation option, and there's now ConvertTo/From-Json, and ConvertFrom-Markdown. If there is a basic routine that would be popular and fit many use-cases, you could request it at https://github.com/powerShell/PowerShell/issues/

There is a GPL licensed scientific computing framework called Accord.NET, it's not wrapped for PS but can be used almost directly, and some of these others might be viable as well:

http://accord-framework.net/

https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerShell/comments/5ijcj7/kmeans_c...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_numerical_libraries#.N...