The architectural alternative to powershell-style extension has been around
in various guises for a while.  In particular things like TCL and Lua are
engineered to be add-on extension languages.  Integrating them just
involves adding a few callouts (dispatch a “program”, scan directories in a
designated “path” for programs, render internal structures into text).

This style of design has been around for a long time - all Unix shells,
EMacs, many video games.

It enables an elegant approach to performance management - build it first
as a script and only reimplement it as a binary if needed.

Doing this enables automation, but it does require the designers and
product managers to want automation.

Marc
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On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 4:39 AM Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Jun 2024, Ed Bradford wrote:
>
> > [...] people who know how to write stuff in PS are more expensive
> > employees, and development time for asking a simple question like
> >
> >   "Show me the last 5 files read in a directory tree"
>
> Likely a one-liner in Unix :-)
>
> -- Dave