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Powershell 6 is open and runs on Unix.

The Elvish example is a lot neater in Powershell: `(irm https://api.github.com/repos/elves/elvish/issues)|select number, title -first 11`

Can you elaborate on the semicolons? Lists are declared by a comma, not semicolon: `$a = 1,2`, or `$a = @(1)` to enforce it

There can be some confusion between pipeline syntax and imperative syntax in Powershell, custom objects don't help either (i.e. `{...}` works differently than `[pscustomobject]{...}` for many cmdlets), but I'm curious what you consider chaotic enough to give up?

These outdated OSes have a tiny market share, and more importantly, an organization that prevents sw installation doesn't use outdated OSes. Others can install Firefox even on XP. Old Androids and IPhones are a bigger issue.

But what's the current day scenario when you have to support old IEs? Security updates are only being provided for IE 11, which hopefully makes it default to the corporate sphere.

SQL Express has several performance limits and goes idle when not used.

"More robust" -- in what way? From what I've seen they are very robust.

Or what you're saying is that if you store a date of zero VALUE to MySQL it could be magically replaced by NULL internally? That would be really crazy.

Although I have no experience with MySQL, this kind of problems have to be resolved by using LINQ to SQL since every db type is automatically mapped to its .NET counterpart. The DateTime .NET type then has only one representation of null.

Well, AFAIK he can easily switch to MySQL for instance, under the same ORM.

What do you mean by "forcing"? I'm running Windows XP on VirtualBox without any problems.

Why the hell!? :)

Why you do not control your server by Powershell then?

Windows, because of the polished .NET universe.

Btw, is there any alternative to Autohotkey on Linux/OS X? Cannot imagine how to use any desktop GUI without it anymore.