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So the ironic part is this script would no longer work after these deprecations because installing Homebrew requires a Ruby interpreter[0].

Obviously these things are fixable but a whole lot of people are going to have to do a lot of work to workaround having _no_ scripting languages installed by default on a fresh Mac.

[0]: https://github.com/atomantic/dotfiles/blob/master/install.sh...



Looks like they're ahead of this problem already.

https://twitter.com/zbeekman/status/1136250914539483136

> Once Homebrew no longer has to support a macOS with a system ruby, we can even run with a considerably more up-to-date version, modulo concerns for supporting older linux(brew) OSes. We have a portable ruby that we can use to bootstrap things.




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