Apple to Deprecate Scripting Languages in Future Versions of macOS

Re:Apple to Deprecate Scripting Languages in Future Versions... by acomjean on Saturday August 31, 2019 @09:54AM (#20846271)

I think its going to cause problems for developers if they completely remove them. As people won't be able to run the script to install the things that give them up to date scripts.

Its like using the default web browser to download the "browser of your choice".

There is the issue that apple usually "quarantines" executable downloads ("You downloaded this from X, do you really want to run) and these scripts do an end run around that. will apple be forcing a download of a signed package dng that installs macports or brew..?

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Re:Apple to Deprecate Scripting Languages in Future Versions... by chongli on Saturday August 31, 2019 @10:07AM (#20846335)

They won't get rid of zsh, which they've just adopted as the default shell going forward. Macports and homebrew can bootstrap with a shell script.

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Re:Apple to Deprecate Scripting Languages in Future Versions... by louisch on Saturday August 31, 2019 @10:07AM (#20846336)

Apparently homebrew currently pulls a temporary ruby to run its installation on linux where it can't expect there to be a systen ruby installed. Something like that would have to be done.

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Re:Apple to Deprecate Scripting Languages in Future Versions... by ken on Saturday August 31, 2019 @10:18AM (#20846400)

It's a pain to switch languages, but it looks like there will still be at least 4 scripting languages available: Z shell, Applescript, Javascript, and Swift.

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