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		lloeki on March 3, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FreeBSD has removed GCC from its base system > It's as if MacOS decided to stop shipping bash by default. More precisely, it’s as if macOS stopped shipping GCC in the CLT. Oh wait, they did exactly that already, the last one being gcc 4.2 on Darwin 11, after that a GCC command is still present but it’s just a front to llvm. https://github.com/archmac/packages/blob/master/core/apple-g...

fullstop on March 3, 2020 [–]

> It's as if MacOS decided to stop shipping bash by default.

They switched from tcsh to bash, so it's not out of the question.

edit: looks like tcsh is still available, but not the default.

michaelsbradley on March 3, 2020 | [–]

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