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Title is misleading and makes it sound like Apple is removing support for scripting features that are integrated with macOS - AppleScript for instance. More li
by xiaq 7y ago
Title is misleading and makes it sound like Apple is removing support for scripting features that are integrated with macOS - AppleScript for instance.
More like "Apple to stop shipping scripting language interpreters in macOS".
- fortran77 7y agoIf they ship with the OS, they're "integrated" with the OS.
- ralmeida 7y agoStrictly speaking, yes, but the level of integration is very different. I can get the version of Python which would come bundled elsewhere, but if they remove Automator, there's nothing I can do.
- jboles 7y agoNot really, no. Python/Ruby/Perl interpreters are not “integrated” into the OS like AppleScript and Automator are. They’re just some binaries sitting in /usr/local/bin.
- pdpi 7y agoInternet Explorer was integrated into Windows in ways that Calculator or Mine Sweeper weren't — those were merely bundled with the OS. Python, Perl are the calc.exe of this story — not integrated into the OS, just bundled with it. There's a long history between OSX and Ruby, with MacRuby and RubyCocoa being some efforts to actually integrate Ruby more tightly into the ecosystem, but those efforts have long been abandoned.