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Discussion on: MacOS won’t be shipped with scripting languages in the future. (Python/Ruby/Perl/etc)

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Devin Handspiker-Wade

Not how much this will affect people. A lot of the runtimes bundled in OSX are so far out-of-date that most people (or Devs at least) end up installing a newer version with the rest of their applications anyway.

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Dan

Yeah I agree. I was wondering the other day after I saw that the default shell will be zsh if they'd ever get rid of old Python and here it is.

Probably there's a lot of old Python code still being used. I remember even 3-4 years ago reading things that still suggested to using Python 2.7 rather than 3.x. I don't know about other languages though.

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Devin Handspiker-Wade

There's probably going to be a fair amount of blog posts that no longer work; those "paste this into Terminal" type of post. There's a lot of snippets assuming that the tools are there.

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Dan