The Future of AppleScript
The Future of AppleScript
- Subject: The Future of AppleScript
- From: Beinan Li <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 13:00:51 -0400
Hi AppleScript:
Now that _javascript_-based application scripting will be supported from Yosemite on.
I wonder what AppleScript's future will be.
Will we see a (long) decline of AppleScript
or a AppleScript-_javascript_ dynamics similar to Swift-ObjC in other areas? Maybe this is not an appropriate comparison ...
My guess is that given the sheer number of existing scripts and AppleScript-based scripts around, AppleScript will live on. But _javascript_ will appeal to a broader community and it could outweigh AppleScript's user community in the long run. The questions is: Will _javascript_ have all the access that AppleScript does? If so, then it's quite possible that AppleScript loses its edge as a result and sink to the deprecation state.
The thing is that I'm new to both AppleScript and _javascript_ and would like to
focus on learning only one of them to get by in app scripting.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Beinan
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