How come we do not have Bash and PowerShell scripting courses on SoloLearn?

Question

How come we do not have Bash and PowerShell scripting courses on SoloLearn? These are 2 powerful and widely used languages in the industry and I believe every coder should know how to script in these. I hope someone will add these 2 on SoloLearn :)

Answer 1

Possibly because when I search Q&A there are a collection of single posts on these two topics but it seems to stop there (maybe the 'bystander effect'--in crowds this often manifests as "I bet someone else will help" and then nobody does).

Here are a couple posts I found in Q&A. There are others.
https://www.sololearn.com/Discuss/1055791/?ref=app
https://www.sololearn.com/Discuss/970125/?ref=app (lesson suggestions; there are specific bash ones out there too)

Answer 2

Heinrich Right, I think I installed WSL recently (and cygwin, sigh), but PS in Linux is a little surprising.

Just personally, these languages written for one platform then ported doesn't seem as strong a position to me but...
...here's a bash guide for anyone who wants to look at constructing lessons:

Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide (Mar 10, 2014)
https://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

(from The Linux Documentation Project)

Answer 3

Maybe you can add it one day :)

Answer 4

perhaps because these aren’t really programming languages. bash falls short in handling data from files and mathematical calculations. so might as well use python. but i believe SoloLearn should teach bash here. believe it or not, even linux administration isnt the trend anymore, rather devops is the current hot topic, for which what you need is bash!

Answer 5

Yeah I would love to see Powershell course here.

Answer 6

I would highly appreciate a powershell course. It's much more than a shell.

Answer 7

Hi Kirk,
although it's originated in Windows, Powershell is also available for Linux.
And vice versa Bash for Windows through WSL.

Answer 8

i literally just posted about the same thing but for bash 😂

Answer 9

It just occurred to me...all of the languages here are cross-platform / OS agnostic.

In contrast,
Bash is Linux (and by no means the only shell)
Powershell is Windows (and only the default scripting host if you've got the funds for recent systems)

So...just thinking (no insider info here) "special interest" languages really may need to prove/gather momentum from community-developed content.

Answer 10

in general, there are a lot more devices running linux than windows. starting from small devices, cars etc to servers. So popularity-wise linux is not lacking. And if you go with DevOps, bash is pretty much answering all minimal requirements for container/orchestrtion building. Especialy since this hot trend is linux based, windows is kind of tagging behind