PowerShell vs Python vs ReasonML

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PowerShell

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Python

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ReasonML

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Pros of PowerShell
Pros of Python
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    • 1.2K
      Great libraries
    • 959
      Readable code
    • 844
      Beautiful code
    • 785
      Rapid development
    • 688
      Large community
    • 434
      Open source
    • 391
      Elegant
    • 280
      Great community
    • 272
      Object oriented
    • 218
      Dynamic typing
    • 77
      Great standard library
    • 58
      Very fast
    • 54
      Functional programming
    • 48
      Easy to learn
    • 45
      Scientific computing
    • 35
      Great documentation
    • 28
      Easy to read
    • 28
      Productivity
    • 28
      Matlab alternative
    • 23
      Simple is better than complex
    • 20
      It's the way I think
    • 19
      Imperative
    • 18
      Free
    • 18
      Very programmer and non-programmer friendly
    • 17
      Machine learning support
    • 17
      Powerfull language
    • 16
      Fast and simple
    • 14
      Scripting
    • 12
      Explicit is better than implicit
    • 11
      Ease of development
    • 10
      Clear and easy and powerfull
    • 9
      Unlimited power
    • 8
      It's lean and fun to code
    • 8
      Import antigravity
    • 7
      Python has great libraries for data processing
    • 7
      Print "life is short, use python"
    • 6
      Flat is better than nested
    • 6
      Readability counts
    • 6
      Rapid Prototyping
    • 6
      Fast coding and good for competitions
    • 6
      Now is better than never
    • 6
      There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious
    • 6
      High Documented language
    • 6
      I love snakes
    • 6
      Although practicality beats purity
    • 6
      Great for tooling
    • 5
      Great for analytics
    • 5
      Lists, tuples, dictionaries
    • 4
      Multiple Inheritence
    • 4
      Complex is better than complicated
    • 4
      Socially engaged community
    • 4
      Easy to learn and use
    • 4
      Simple and easy to learn
    • 4
      Web scraping
    • 4
      Easy to setup and run smooth
    • 4
      Beautiful is better than ugly
    • 4
      Plotting
    • 4
      CG industry needs
    • 3
      No cruft
    • 3
      It is Very easy , simple and will you be love programmi
    • 3
      Many types of collections
    • 3
      If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a g
    • 3
      If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad id
    • 3
      Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules
    • 3
      Pip install everything
    • 3
      List comprehensions
    • 3
      Generators
    • 3
      Import this
    • 2
      Flexible and easy
    • 2
      Batteries included
    • 2
      Can understand easily who are new to programming
    • 2
      Powerful language for AI
    • 2
      Should START with this but not STICK with This
    • 2
      A-to-Z
    • 2
      Because of Netflix
    • 2
      Only one way to do it
    • 2
      Better outcome
    • 2
      Good for hacking
    • 1
      Securit
    • 1
      Slow
    • 1
      Sexy af
    • 0
      Ni
    • 0
      Powerful
    • 4
      Pattern Matching
    • 3
      Type System
    • 1
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    Cons of PowerShell
    Cons of Python
    Cons of ReasonML
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      • 53
        Still divided between python 2 and python 3
      • 28
        Performance impact
      • 26
        Poor syntax for anonymous functions
      • 22
        GIL
      • 19
        Package management is a mess
      • 14
        Too imperative-oriented
      • 12
        Hard to understand
      • 12
        Dynamic typing
      • 12
        Very slow
      • 8
        Indentations matter a lot
      • 8
        Not everything is expression
      • 7
        Incredibly slow
      • 7
        Explicit self parameter in methods
      • 6
        Requires C functions for dynamic modules
      • 6
        Poor DSL capabilities
      • 6
        No anonymous functions
      • 5
        Fake object-oriented programming
      • 5
        Threading
      • 5
        The "lisp style" whitespaces
      • 5
        Official documentation is unclear.
      • 5
        Hard to obfuscate
      • 5
        Circular import
      • 4
        Lack of Syntax Sugar leads to "the pyramid of doom"
      • 4
        The benevolent-dictator-for-life quit
      • 4
        Not suitable for autocomplete
      • 2
        Meta classes
      • 1
        Training wheels (forced indentation)
      • 1
        Bindings

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      What is PowerShell?

      A command-line shell and scripting language built on .NET. Helps system administrators and power-users rapidly automate tasks that manage operating systems (Linux, macOS, and Windows) and processes.

      What is Python?

      Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.

      What is ReasonML?

      It lets you write simple, fast and quality type safe code while leveraging both the JavaScript & OCaml ecosystems.It is powerful, safe type inference means you rarely have to annotate types, but everything gets checked for you.

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