I'm Switching to Python and Actually Liking It

Re:I'm Switching to Python and Actually Liking It by latexr on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @05:07AM (#44580207)

Technically macOS doesn’t come with Python pre-installed, but it does provide you with a simple path to do it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44580198

The removal was in Monterey. Catalina and its successor Big Sur very much still had it. Catalina was the one that removed 32-bit support.

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Re:I'm Switching to Python and Actually Liking It by tovazm on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @06:22AM (#44580609)

I think they realised the security implications,

you could just take a random person macbook, open the terminal and launch python3 -m http.server 3000 --directory ~

then on the local network you could download all his files

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Re:I'm Switching to Python and Actually Liking It by latexr on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @07:11AM (#44580900)

If you have access to their MacBook and can open a terminal, even `rsync` (which comes preinstalled) would do the job.

It seems much more likely to me they were just tired of having to manage the languages (and being constantly criticised they were behind) and simply chose to remove them.

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Re:I'm Switching to Python and Actually Liking It by icedchai on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @09:26PM (#44588778)

This doesn't make much sense. With physical access, I could easily just download python and do the same thing. Or anything else.

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