Allow me to rephrase, no cheap way to evaluate arbitrary strings without spinning up another vm.
That’s not true either.
explain?
That's an extension. It doesn't come with PHP (not "out of the box").
Rails doesn’t come with a default install of Ruby. Xcode doesn’t come pre-installed on macOS. You have to install Chrome on every major desktop OS as it doesn’t come by default.
Installing and configuring your environment to your needs should be entry level stuff for a developer, so what was the point of your reply?