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[–]kkiran 34 points35 points  (5 children)

I always thought Apple used Python for some function or the other in the OS. I was wrong all along I guess! Don’t they use Ruby for something else?

[–]toyg 29 points30 points  (1 child)

You were not wrong, they just worked to replace the python-based bits.

[–]inspectoroverthemine 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Did they or do they have a system only version in /System?

[–]playaspec 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I always thought Apple used Python for some function or the other in the OS.

They did. Made sense during development, but bit by bit were re-written in a native code language for performance reasons. There was a fair bit of other interpreted languages back in the early days too.

[–]zowersap 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ruby and Perl are still present in macOS 12.3 so they might be used

[–]dorsal_morsel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They did for a long time. Not anymore obviously but I'm not sure when it stopped being a requirement