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This might be a dumb quesiton but ... do you think AppleScript was a mistake on Apple's part? My understanding is MacOS has had automation via AppleScript forev
by socalgal2 8mo ago
This might be a dumb quesiton but ... do you think AppleScript was a mistake on Apple's part? My understanding is MacOS has had automation via AppleScript forever, but everytime I've used it the syntax is inscrutable. It feels like if they had chosen Python or JavaScript or Lua we'd see much more automation over the last 20+ years. Is Hammerspoon filling that gap?
- wlonkly 7mo agoAppleScript predates Javascript by two years, but by even more than that in terms of usability. It was definitely designed for "non-programmers", the people buying Macs in the System 7 days. But modern MacOS is automatable using Javascript in Script Editor, so they're catching up.