> Aside from it being bash (a great reason not to use it as far as I’m concerned) it’s now a 17 years old version of bash.
I thought people liked macOs for its vintage feel? Remember a time when computers could only render a single menu bar in a fixed location, feel the experience of SYN floods, run a version of bash that is old enough to vote in the next presidential election.
According to the interwebs, zsh became default with Catalina in 2019 [1]; ten years after bash 4 was released with gpl v3 or later.
Also, the interwebs suggest Apple used to use tcsh as the default shell[2]; I don't know when they changed that, but it may have been after bash 4 released? (Thanks, 10.3 was in 2003, so several years before the license changed)
masklinn|2 years ago
Apple just didn’t update. It took them years to finally switch to switch to zsh.
> The older bash is still available.
Aside from it being bash (a great reason not to use it as far as I’m concerned) it’s now a 17 years old version of bash.
toast0|2 years ago
I thought people liked macOs for its vintage feel? Remember a time when computers could only render a single menu bar in a fixed location, feel the experience of SYN floods, run a version of bash that is old enough to vote in the next presidential election.
toast0|2 years ago
Also, the interwebs suggest Apple used to use tcsh as the default shell[2]; I don't know when they changed that, but it may have been after bash 4 released? (Thanks, 10.3 was in 2003, so several years before the license changed)
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/4/18651872/apple-macos-catal...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18853318
masklinn|2 years ago