I'm not really sure what you are strongly disagreeing about.
The cat is out of the bag. Don't want to use python? You've got perl. PHP. And those are just the ones installed by default. Don't like that? You've got bash and zsh.
> Apple wants you to buy your code, and if you want to write code, to use the languages they are in control of as a separate download.
I haven't seen Apple putting a barrier up to running ANY other code beyond Swift/ObjC, have you? Because I've never had any issue on MacOS running golang, python, or basically anything else I could dream of, especially once homebrew is installed. I build code on an M2 mac on Python 3.12 basically every day.
On linux, you can't even install packages on many distros without python. On Windows, you have similar stuff installed, as well as things like Powershell.
The point is, all this software exists because the variety in programming languages makes creating apps of all kind more approachable to the normal person. No longer do you need to know ASM or C to make a functional app for anything you want.
I'm just saying that it's a bit disingenous to say anybody would have problems accessing a compiler of some sort on a modern system, and there are multiple functional ones often installed by default.
> but I don't see apple really supporting you writing code.
I'm sorry.
There is no part of this that I can call intellectually honest.
I guarantee there are more members of the Fortune 100 that are developing on Apple hardware that have ZERO issues developing in anything that's not actually MacOS targeted.
To the point where even suggesting this is laughable
The cat is out of the bag. Don't want to use python? You've got perl. PHP. And those are just the ones installed by default. Don't like that? You've got bash and zsh.
> Apple wants you to buy your code, and if you want to write code, to use the languages they are in control of as a separate download.
I haven't seen Apple putting a barrier up to running ANY other code beyond Swift/ObjC, have you? Because I've never had any issue on MacOS running golang, python, or basically anything else I could dream of, especially once homebrew is installed. I build code on an M2 mac on Python 3.12 basically every day.
On linux, you can't even install packages on many distros without python. On Windows, you have similar stuff installed, as well as things like Powershell.
The point is, all this software exists because the variety in programming languages makes creating apps of all kind more approachable to the normal person. No longer do you need to know ASM or C to make a functional app for anything you want.
I'm just saying that it's a bit disingenous to say anybody would have problems accessing a compiler of some sort on a modern system, and there are multiple functional ones often installed by default.