PowerShell needs to become more ubiquitous. There are so many things about it that once considered in greater detail make so much sense. Parameter setup, typing, and naming. Flow control. Object-oriented scripting. Built-in parsing for recursive data types like JSON, HTML, XML.
And in my opinion, the most slept-on: the fact it runs on the CLR and direct access to .NET objects and types which means access to P/Invoke and thence the Windows API. One can write business logic in the fast language and write a nice CLI wrapper around that in the natural shell language, and not worry about painful FFI unlike everyone else trying to fit Python or Bash into whatever world they're using.
The typical counter to this will be: PowerShell is verbose, PowerShell used `curl` as an alias to Invoke-WebRequest instead of the Real Thing™. Neither are real arguments.
I'm curious, have any good examples of projects in the ~1K LOC range of PowerShell, so I could get a taste for how something like that would look like? Beyond that I tend to go for "real" programming languages, or just start with Babashka, but still curious to see projects other PowerShell fans would consider "well written/designed" :)
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