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I was wondering what programming or scripting languages come pre-installed on OSX? Particularly programs that can be run from the command line.

I'm planning on parsing some CSS, and outputting an html page. I've done it in python before, but I would like to make sure it's transferrable to others in my organization.

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OS X doesn't come with any compilers built-in. It has a number of scripting languages though:

  • Python (2.7.2)
  • Perl (5.12.4)
  • Ruby (1.8.7p358)
  • PHP (5.3.15)
  • Bash (3.2)
  • Zsh (4.3.11)
  • AWK
  • Tcl/Tk (8.5.9 and 8.4.19)
  • …

The listed versions are included in OS X Mountain Lion (v10.8), but some version of each of these has been included in OS X since at least v10.3.

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  • What about Vimscript and JS? :)
    – Vitaly Zdanevich
    Commented Feb 8, 2019 at 17:49
  • MacBook Air (M1) comes with Python 2.7.16 and not, as I did expect, 2.7.18 (April 20, 2020). According to Wikipedia, it was released in 17 November 2020. Do you happen to know what the reason is?
    – Wolf
    Commented Jan 28, 2021 at 14:25

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