No. Cross-platform Siri [Shortcuts] plus App Extensions and App Intents will. That’s where Apple sees the future of end-user automation now: providing 1% of the

No. Cross-platform Siri [Shortcuts] plus App Extensions and App Intents will. That’s where Apple sees the future of end-user automation now: providing 1% of the power to 1000× (it hopes) more customers. Will Apple’s new strategy actually work? Eh, maybe. It is not a great plan, but Apple has more than enough resources to brute-force it to “[Barely] Good Enough” status so at least its backers can declare great success. And, to be fair, if Siri plus App Itents can enable even 10 million iOS users to tell their phones to perform trivial tasks for them, that will be a huge, genuine achievement on Apple’s part. While transitioning from AppleScript to Shortcuts takes away the Lego Techniks for anyone to build new functions (only professional Swift developers will have power to do that), the Duplo blocks it provides in return are easier to use. … That said, a more cunning plan could provide 100% of the capabilities to 1000× of the users, and probably more. ’Cos what AppleScript sits on is a huge trove of [mostly] standardized query handling applications, and Siri itself is a query builder. Anyone suffering terminal insomnia and compulsive sado-masochism is welcome to read the alternative (independent, community-driven) plan I proposed in these 2 posts: https://forum.latenightsw.com/t/petition-apple-for-applescript-3-0/3897/28 https://forum.latenightsw.com/t/petition-apple-for-applescri... https://forum.latenightsw.com/t/petition-apple-for-applescript-3-0/3897/29 https://forum.latenightsw.com/t/petition-apple-for-applescri... (Be warned: most of that thread is just me showing my ass to the world’s last entrenched handful of reactionary AppleScripters who do not want to imagine a future without AppleScript, because that future is not all about them any more, so they don’t. Ah well, I suck. My offer stands to anyone mad enough.)