This. This. And Absolutely This. npm integration was an absolute must-have to ensure popular adoption; even I could see this straightaway. Alas, as last Apple

This. This. And Absolutely This. npm integration was an absolute must-have to ensure popular adoption; even I could see this straightaway. Alas, as last Apple bastion of Not Invented Here, the Mac Automation team insisted on rolling everything themselves. All problems I told Sal about before JXA ever shipped. Told him about lots and lots of problems, which he pretty much ignored. Even wrote and sent him a quick-n-dirty JavaScript OSA implementation (https://sourceforge.net/projects/appscript/files/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/appscript/files/), by which time the man didn’t even have the common manners to say “thanks but no thanks”. A charming chap who talks great game, but a thin-skinned martinet. There was no technical reason JXA could not have been 99.9% as good as AppleScript at application automation, and a million times better at everything else. 100% PEBKAC.