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Does Ruby come pre-installed on virtually every Unix-like system out there?
by kqr 4y ago
Does Ruby come pre-installed on virtually every Unix-like system out there?
- ARandomerDude 4y agoIf it's not installed already, Ruby will be installed ASAP on any machine I use.
- someRandoJunk 4y agoYou're confusing perl with ruby there.
- jrochkind1 4y agoNo, and if it is, who knows what version it is. I think that's the main thing preventing one from using ruby like this. It is otherwise preferable in pretty much every way. Perl is kind of pre-installed on virtually every Unix-like system for what are at this point historical/legacy reasons. It is unlikely any other language can ever achieve this at this point.
- throwaway111555 4y agoAFAIR, Red Hat stopped including Perl by default since RHEL8 (
- kqr 4y agoIndeed. As much as I would like to use Ruby or Raku for this type of stuff, I keep coming back to Perl because it's simply... there. Sure, I could probably install Ruby on any machine I want it, but it's not just technical availability. Socially, Perl serves as a quite obvious Schelling point. I don't have to convince four other people to learn Ruby, because Perl is what everyone would gravitate to even in isolation, again because it's just... there. (That said in recent years I've had to switch to Python for some things aimed at a younger audience. Oh well.)
- Toutouxc 4y agoJust a data point — Ruby, Perl and Python have all been deprecated [0] in macOS. [0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-catalina-10_15-release-notes#3318257 https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-note...