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"AppleScript" can do JS now, but it's so clunky and badly documented that it's barely worth it.
by Gaelan 7y ago
"AppleScript" can do JS now, but it's so clunky and badly documented that it's barely worth it.
- hhas01 7y agoJXA, like Scripting Bridge before it, was shipped crippled and buggy and abandoned once it was out the door. Apple finally disbanded the Mac Automation team and fired the PM responsible a couple years ago. In fact, there are several production-tested Apple event bridges that totally wipe the floor with Apple’s failed attempts, but caveat emptor as I don’t do support: http://appscript.sourceforge.net http://appscript.sourceforge.net https://www.npmjs.com/package/nodeautomation https://www.npmjs.com/package/nodeautomation https://hhas.bitbucket.io/welcome.html https://hhas.bitbucket.io/welcome.html We’ll see what happens when Shortcuts lands in 10.16, but I’d say the chances of Apple event automation having a long and healthy life ahead are 50/50, at best.