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Re:PHP has been removed in macOS Monterey by habibur on Thursday June 17, 2021 @04:46AM (#27537448)
Looks like the same is said for Python, Ruby, Perl and all other scripting languages on MacOS too.

Apparently Apple prefers compiled binary for everything.

Am not complaining. The included Apache/MySQL servers were too old and I had to install those anew. But that always collided with the stock installed one.

It's good that Apple getting rid of those. Install what you need afresh.

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Re:PHP has been removed in macOS Monterey by gregoriol on Thursday June 17, 2021 @04:49AM (#27537466)
Or they just don't want to maintain/update those components because there are much better and up-to-date ways to install them.
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Re:PHP has been removed in macOS Monterey by whywhywhywhy on Thursday June 17, 2021 @06:28AM (#27538109)
>Apparently Apple prefers compiled binary for everything

If you're an Apple exec it's hard to ignore that iOS succeeded fine with just bundling everything into self contained apps. They definitely see this is as the future and the old model as the past.

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Re:PHP has been removed in macOS Monterey by maratc on Thursday June 17, 2021 @05:33AM (#27537782)
> Looks like the same is said for Python, Ruby, Perl and all other scripting languages on MacOS too.

I just ran a version check on Python (2 and 3), Ruby, and Perl, and none of them said anything to the tune of "will be removed soon". (MacOS 11)

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Re:PHP has been removed in macOS Monterey by habibur on Thursday June 17, 2021 @06:25AM (#27538091)
There's a different comment here in this discussion from someone else that quotes the relevant text. Check that. Running the commands won't. But said elsewhere.
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