Technically macOS doesn’t come with Python pre-installed, but it does provide yo...

tovazm · 2025-07-16T10:22:44 1752661364

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

latexr · 2025-07-16T11:11:58 1752664318

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.

icedchai · 2025-07-17T01:26:23 1752715583

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