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The Open Scripting Architecture (OSA) used to support additional languages instead of just AppleScript, I recall that Perl was one of them in the past. Unfortun

by tjl 12y ago

The Open Scripting Architecture (OSA) used to support additional languages instead of just AppleScript, I recall that Perl was one of them in the past. Unfortunately, this changed at point. I'm hoping that Javascript support points to them re-opening this.

masklinn 12y ago
OSA does not support things, it's the underlying platform hook. AFAIK third parties have always been free to implement OSA bridging. In fact one bloke did exactly that[0] when JfA was first announced. [0] http://lists.apple.com/archives/applescript-users/2014/Sep/msg00009.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/applescript-users/2014/Sep/m...
- dottrap 12y ago
  Yes, you could already do Lua (see LuaCocoa) and other languages like Python (PyObjC), Ruby (RubyCocoa/MacRuby), and even JavaScript (JSCocoa) via ScriptingBridge way back from 10.5.
steveax 12y ago
Not to mention Userscript (Frontier) which was dreamy to work in in comparison to AppleScript.