Why did you do that? $VAR/ {} / Weak Intellisense https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/monad/why-did-you-do-that-var-weak-intellisense
The $ in front of variables comes from our design center of being an interactive command oriented shell. Interactive shells are NOT the same thing as Scripting languages with command interpretors. Interactive shells are case studies in engineering tradeoffs (another way of saying that is that they tend to be a little quirky). There is a tension between the needs of a great interactive experience and a great scripting/programming experience. Time and time again during the course of the project, people would try to make us "choose" between one or the other. We refused.
We believe that if you work hard enough at it, you can solve the puzzle and provide a great solution for both. We were absolutely subborn on this point. Time and time again, we were able to succeed with this approach if we travailed long enough.
