Re: The Future of AppleScript
Re: The Future of AppleScript
- Subject: Re: The Future of AppleScript
- From: "S. J. Cunningham" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 04:57:36 -0400
I think the future of Applescript/Javascript will depend more on how many application developers include a rich Applescript/Javascript interface in their applications than on anything Apple does. That, in turn, will depend on what their customers demand. I have been disappointed at how many applications today are either not Applescriptable or have such a limited set of commands available as to be unusable. And too many times, even when an Applescript interface is included, it is buggy and the developer shows little interest in fixing or maintaining it. I realize you can use the "Universal Accessibility" kludge to get around this but that's only good in a pinch and really not conducive to developing a rich, flexible script.
Sadly the trend seems to be to "dumb-down" the applications to appeal to a wider market and to move the applications themselves out into the "Cloud". Applescript was more suited to the "Early Adopters" of computers who were comfortable with programming. The apparent push by Apple for the IOSiffication of OS X is a further bad omen. Now the market, and hence the developer's focus, appears to be moving to tablets rather than general purpose computers, with the design goal being to give those pesky users as little control as possible of a fixed, limited functionality.
I fondly remember working on my own car, fixing my own radio and TV when they broke, etc. Today, those things are no longer practical or economical. Although disappointing, I see Applescript going the way of Hypercard. I hope I am wrong. I may have been once before :)
Steve Cunningham
On Aug 31, 2014, at 1:37 AM, Christopher Stone wrote:
> On Aug 30, 2014, at 20:45, Shane Stanley <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> On 31 Aug 2014, at 3:00 am, Beinan Li <email@hidden> wrote:
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>>> The questions is: Will JavaScript have all the access that AppleScript does?
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>> And the answer is: We'll know when it's released. It's fairly pointless speculating until then.
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>>> If so, then it's quite possible that AppleScript loses its edge as a result and sink to the deprecation state.
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>> Anything's possible. But the binary view that there can only be one of anything doesn't bear a lot of scrutiny.
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> Also. Keep in mind how much effort Apple put into AppleScript in Mavericks and is now following up in Yosemite.
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> AppleScript is going to be with us for a while yet.
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> --
> Best Regards,
> Chris
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