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Apple's Shortcuts seems heavily inspired by the visual programming language that Scratch uses: https://support.apple.com/guide/shortcuts-mac/intro-to-how-shortc

• Tijdreiziger 2y ago
  More like Automator: https://support.apple.com/guide/automator/welcome/mac https://support.apple.com/guide/automator/welcome/mac (although [per Wikipedia] the first Scratch prototype does seem to predate Automator by 1.5 years, so I suppose it’s possible there’s a connection)
  • micheljansen 2y ago
    Shortcuts is indeed the (more than spiritual) successor to Automator. Scratch was pretty famous in interface design circles in the early 2000s (it was a pretty high profile MIT Media Lab project). I'm sure the Automator developers were aware of it, but it may also have been a case of both having a rich neighbour [1]. Agentsheets, for example, predates both by over 10 years [2] [1] https://folklore.org/A_Rich_Neighbor_Named_Xerox.html https://folklore.org/A_Rich_Neighbor_Named_Xerox.html [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AgentSheets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AgentSheets