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by koenigdavidmj 1603 days ago
Up until 12.3, it did.

Now, it's included in the CLI tools. You know how when you run 'clang' or any of those, it's a wrapper that offers to download the real tool for you? That's how the 'python3' binary works now.

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Is there any chance that they’ve stopped confusing everyone by aliasing gcc to clang transparently? That’s the change I really want to see. The programs inherently accept different arguments. The amount of GitHub issues that boil down to someone thinking they’re calling GCC but calling Clang instead is staggering. Let my build fail.
macOS has never shipped with python3 by default; it's only ever been a shim like that.