Fine-grained automation means Apple event IPC, which is very powerful and elegant, which for practical purposes means AppleScript, which is… not. I wrote produ

Fine-grained automation means Apple event IPC, which is very powerful and elegant, which for practical purposes means AppleScript, which is… not. I wrote production-quality Apple event bridges for half-a-dozen major languages (Apple even considered bundling a couple of them in Leopard). It’s an amazing ecosystem once unlocked with languages that aren’t a bad joke. Thousands of productivity apps with not one but two very high-level User Interfaces: one graphical, one programmatic. Alas, even the best software in the world won’t fix PEBKAC, and the Mac Automation Product Manager was one of these: https://daedtech.com/how-software-groups-rot-legacy-of-the-expert-beginner https://daedtech.com/how-software-groups-rot-legacy-of-the-e... A few thousand hours of solving their problems only for them to promptly un-solve them again, I finally gave up in disgust. http://appscript.sourceforge.net/status.html http://appscript.sourceforge.net/status.html As say upthread, there are better ways to spend your life than trying to fix stuff that others are determined to keep broken. At least I had a laugh when Apple finally sacked that jackass, even if he did take Mac Automation down with him. For better or worse, the future of macOS Automation now lies in the hands of the Siri squad and their conversational shortcuts. Let’s hope they do better. https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/1135956331360346113 https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/11359563313603461... #InterestingTimes