Re: The Future of AppleScript
Re: The Future of AppleScript
- Subject: Re: The Future of AppleScript
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 11:45:28 +1000
On 31 Aug 2014, at 3:00 am, Beinan Li <email@hidden> wrote:
> The questions is: Will JavaScript have all the access that AppleScript does?
And the answer is: We'll know when it's released. It's fairly pointless speculating until then.
> If so, then it's quite possible that AppleScript loses its edge as a result and sink to the deprecation state.
Anything's possible. But the binary view that there can only be one of anything doesn't bear a lot of scrutiny.
> 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.
The hardest part of application scripting is not the language you use, but coming to grips with applications' object models, and the query-like nature of using Apple events. IMO the tools you can use to do that make a big difference. Let's see what Javascript brings.
With all your speculation about "a (long) decline", a "broader community", "loses its edge", and "sink to the deprecation state", it sounds like you've made up your mind already. Just keep in mind that predictions about the future of anything computer-related have a spectacularly high failure rate.
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Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
<www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>
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