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Discussion on: Apple wants to remove scripting languages from macOS

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Jordan Kicklighter

This actually brings MacOS much more aligned with Linux philosophy. Most distros don't have tons of scripting languages installed by default, really just Python if I remember correctly. Bring your own toolset is much preferred in my opinion.

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Yaser Al-Najjar • Edited

Yep, but Python is pretty important cuz I'm pretty sure there will tools needing that (even inside the OS).

Update: seems like Automator uses it

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Jordan Kicklighter

There's nothing to say a new release of Automatic won't bundle a python interpreter or give you a prompt that installs it (much like how Xcode installs CLI tools). That sounds like what Apple is urging devs to do, so I'd assume they will do the same with their apps.