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.
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