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With modules my pwsh 6 usually starts between 700ms - 2s. Not a big deal to me though.


Cold start? My cold start is 20 seconds but after that about the same as you so I did a rough "average" to try to convey that :)


If you have modules in your module path that don't declare their exports in the manifest, PowerShell has to inspect everything to find all the cmds. This is often what is going on when you have terrible startup times.


Look who's here! Everybody Jeff is the chief architect of Powershell and someone pretty high up Microsoft right now.

Jeff hello, if it's alright i wanted to discuss the target audience of Powershell.

As I understand Microsoft is currently targeting azure users and enterprise sysadmins. I would like to propose that You add features to it that bash and zsh power users take for granted and target the linux community so that it gets more cred and in the open source hackers community and consequently more usage by regular people. Basically the developers developers developers thing from your old boss...

To be honest, right now I can recall anything I'm missing, fzf works, so does z. I will look at the startup time issue (my biggest one right now, I literally had PS1 as my login shell briefly ) ...


Step by step we've been doing more and more focused on Linux users. If you take a look at our telemetry - it is clear something is working because Linux usage is through the roof!!!

https://aka.ms/psgithubbi

I don't want to make any news here but in a bit, the team will publish a blog articulating where we'll be focusing our next release. I think you'll like the direction we are taking.

Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]


That's great to hear, thank you. I look forward to more command line warrior friendly features


Yes that is cold start. I wonder where your slow down is. I only use 2 modules and have a rather small profile to load though.


I have noticed that profile scripts slow down my startup a lot.




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