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Comment by wpm

1 month ago

I would rather limit myself to things I know are going to be preinstalled on the platforms I use than deal with the masochism that is scripted dependency management. No thanks.

All these comments here "Uhhh just use PythoN!" Yeah? I write scripts that need to run on macOS. No Python there. Yeah I can have my script sit there and pull the command line tools in an automated way and wait the 20 minutes it takes to install or I can pull on my big boy pants and just figure out how to do it in shell. It's turing complete. It works. Whatever.

MacOS doesn’t have python? What?

  • macOS has not shipped with Python installed in 6 years. If you take a Mac out of the box, open terminal, and run `python` it prompts you in the GUI to install the Command Line Developer Tools.

    Thanks GPLv3