Re: JSA -- now I believe this is a bug (JSA or AS)
Re: JSA -- now I believe this is a bug (JSA or AS)
- Subject: Re: JSA -- now I believe this is a bug (JSA or AS)
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 20:01:33 +0000
Deivy Petrescu wrote:
> your complaints are not going to deaf ears.
While you may be listening to me, the AS team is not - that was made
clear before 10.10 even shipped. And now they're wasting everyone else's
time as well by doing nothing to teach or support users as they try to
make sense of JXA for themselves. Two minor email replies in two months
does not a community make.
> Now, there are somethings is JSA that I find really interesting, and
I’ll try my shot at using them.
I am curious as to what these "somethings" are. JavaScript for
Automation brings nothing unique, new, or interesting to the table
technology-wise. The *only* reason for JXA's existence is to bring *new
users* into the Mac automation world - i.e. web folk who already use
JavaScript.
If you want a popular scripting language with huge library, tool, and
community support, you're best going with Python or Ruby. Both have
mature, powerful ObjC bridges (PyObjC and RubyCocoa), which allows you
access not only to the entire Cocoa API but also, via OS X's
ScriptingBridge framework, to all of the "AppleScriptable" applications
on your Mac. And that's been standard in Mac OS X since 10.5.
> We will wait and see if the "irremediably broken” language can be fixed.
We've been waiting *seven years* for the AS team to fix the busted junk
that is Leopard's Scripting Bridge, and they haven't done squat. Perhaps
if we wait long enough, Apple will fix the problem for us by killing
AppleScript completely.
has
--
Dumb JXA Design Defect of the Day: What does each of the following produce?
Application('TextEdit').documents['text']
Application('TextEdit').documents['text 2']
Application('TextEdit').documents[varName]
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