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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by Wowfunhappy on Thursday June 06, 2019 @12:04AM (#20111483)
I agree overall, but I do think it's a little sad that you can no longer open a Terminal and start writing Python. I think this legitimately matters in terms of increasing overall tech and programming literacy.

Mind, there's still a command line and shell built-in, which I consider far more important.

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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by unilynx on Thursday June 06, 2019 @01:07AM (#20111750)
Its not like the rest of the terminal is friendly to newbies. An online ‘jsfiddle’ like environment suitable for newbies (with a bit of inline syntax hints without turning into a full IDE) would be more useful to get people to start playing with programming
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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by Wowfunhappy on Thursday June 06, 2019 @10:18AM (#20114778)
Separately from including python, I've always thought it would be nice if TextEdit had some built-in syntax highlighting, that activated automatically for the right file extensions.

I'm generally against bloating simple apps, but you'd never see this unless you opened a .py file (or .sh, .rb, etc), and if you open a .py file, you probably want syntax highlighting.

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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by jodrellblank on Thursday June 06, 2019 @02:16AM (#20112040)
You can open https://repl.it/languages/python3 and start writing Python.
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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by Godel_unicode on Thursday June 06, 2019 @02:43AM (#20112155)
with open("~/Documents/important.csv", "r") as f: f.read()

No? Oh well, I guess programming is hard, IT was right. Ok, back to excel...

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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by amasad on Thursday June 06, 2019 @03:06PM (#20117933)
You can just drag and drop the file on repl.it and it'll just work :)
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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by Godel_unicode on Friday June 07, 2019 @12:20AM (#20121640)
Gee, thanks. My point was about discoverability and being able to Google for "read csv with Python", not whether experienced programmers can hack things together.
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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by amasad on Friday June 07, 2019 @01:34AM (#20121909)
Majority of our users are hobbyists and novices
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