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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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