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Discussion on: Apple wants to remove scripting languages from macOS

 
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Carson

The non technically inclined will certainly not be effected by this. You'd have to be technically inclined to have a need for python to begin with

Ya as a developer it's going to make my life slightly harder. There will be a bootstrapping problem. Apple is abandoning developers, I'm not arguing against that.

I was just being purposely pedantic on your statement about them calling the languages themselves legacy

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Jason C. McDonald • Edited

You'd have to be technically inclined to have a need for python to begin with

Entirely untrue. Python is used to create quite a lot of end-user software, which now either must be packaged specifically for Apple, or will require Python to be manually installed on their machine. So, this will absolutely affect non-technically inclined people.

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Carson

This is where you and I will not come to an agreement. I'm a firm believer that we should already be bundling python with our apps. No worries about compatibility, and easier for the end user. (IMO)

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Carson

Big examples of this are eve online, and sublime text