Re: AS Library Question
Re: AS Library Question
- Subject: Re: AS Library Question
- From: Jean-Christophe Helary <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 14:36:28 +0900
> On Dec 21, 2015, at 13:11, Shane Stanley <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 21 Dec 2015, at 2:22 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> Do you mean that there were attempts are providing an open source standard library for Applescript and that it did not get used ?
>
> No -- that hasn't even been possible outside a scripting addition (or some reasonably complex set-up machinations) for all that long. I mean that third-party AS offerings of all sorts, with a couple of notable exceptions, have failed to be widely embraced. The two big exceptions being Jon’s Commands and the Satimage osax. I may be wrong, but I suspect a third-party StandardLib would suffer the same fate. Especially given the hugely differing expectations people would have of such a thing.
I am too young as an AS user so I am not sure what technical limitation you refer to. Is it what you mention in Everyday ASOC about the now existing ability to save libraries in ~/Library/Script Libraries/ ? If that's the case, and when you see the quantity of libraries that exist for other languages I am pretty sure that would be one reason why libraries have not proliferated yet and that's totally unrelated to whether Apple has put a stamp on a given library or not.
But I also think that AS has a very weird learning curve. It is pretty easy to do simple tweaks on copy-pasted code, but anything beyond that requires a lot of unexpected work.
I'm going back to Jon's quote:
> Not that I’m saying everyone should, but there’s a degree of simplicity that AppleScript engenders, and anything that runs counter to that just won’t see wide acceptance.
I think a lot of AS users expect AS to be very simple and when they hit the first bump in the road they give up, hence the lack of wide acceptance for AS. To fix that and get more people to be seriously interested in AS, there are only 2 solutions. One is community based quality documentation and the other one is standardized recommended practices (in the form of a library or not).
Jean-Christophe
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