PEP 730 – Adding iOS as a supported platform

Re:PEP 730 – Adding iOS as a supported platform by xg15 on Sunday June 02, 2024 @07:44AM (#40553292)

$2000 is expensive for an open source project where people are contributing in their free time. Are you suggesting that EVERY person that wants to work on the iOS support of python buys themselves a $2000 mac, switches their entire workflow to MacOS etc?

> Again, it's one of the cheapest hobbies you can possibly have.

No, definitly not, ESPECIALLY not for open source development.

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Re:PEP 730 – Adding iOS as a supported platform by oefrha on Sunday June 02, 2024 @08:08AM (#40553457)

> EVERY person that wants to work on the iOS support of python buys themselves a $2000 mac, switches their entire workflow to MacOS etc?

Those who don’t have one already can go work on something else. There’s a world of open source libraries for iOS, and no one has forced you to “want to work on” any of them. What a strange attitude, getting angry that other people (e.g. Russell Keith-Magee and Ned Deily — long time Python committer) want to do work that you can’t.

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Re:PEP 730 – Adding iOS as a supported platform by Aaargh20318 on Sunday June 02, 2024 @08:08AM (#40553455)

You sound like you live in a bubble. You must not know many people who have hobbies other than computer programming. Let’s say you buy a $2000 Mac and write it off in 3 years (in practice it’s more like 5, but let’s go for a worst-case scenario). What other hobby only costs $666 a year?

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