I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
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This will be slightly annoying for my job, where I have to use a Mac, I guess. But since almost everything I do runs inside docker containers which don't have this problem, I don't really care.
Apple can do whatever they want with their OS. It's not a development platform, it's a consumer desktop environment, and getting rid of obsolete versions of software makes sense, right? So they should ditch the version of bash they use that's from the 12th century. Except they can't because newer versions use licenses they don't like.
So rather than maintain semi-recent versions of software that's better served by containers, or old versions because of political reasons, just get rid of them. Most of the users won't notice.
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This will be slightly annoying for my job, where I have to use a Mac, I guess. But since almost everything I do runs inside docker containers which don't have this problem, I don't really care.
Apple can do whatever they want with their OS. It's not a development platform, it's a consumer desktop environment, and getting rid of obsolete versions of software makes sense, right? So they should ditch the version of bash they use that's from the 12th century. Except they can't because newer versions use licenses they don't like.
So rather than maintain semi-recent versions of software that's better served by containers, or old versions because of political reasons, just get rid of them. Most of the users won't notice.