Mac Automation Scripting Guide [was Re: New Calendar Scripting Guide from Apple]
Mac Automation Scripting Guide [was Re: New Calendar Scripting Guide from Apple]
- Subject: Mac Automation Scripting Guide [was Re: New Calendar Scripting Guide from Apple]
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 12:33:01 +0000
Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
> 2016/03/22 19:27、Schmidt, Michael <email@hidden> のメール：
>
>> And don’t forget the new Mac Automation Scripting Guide
>
> Wow, really nicely designed...
And full of ASTONISHINGLY SHIT CODE.
Seriously, what idiot decided to recycle the notoriously garbage
Essential Subroutines, code that is so appallingly poor it's not even
wrong? Hand up please, so I can tell you straight to your face just how
embarrassingly incompetent you are to your face. I swear, it's almost
like there's a conspiracy of obtuse stupidity, deliberately working to
make AppleScript appear even more moronically broken and unsustainable
than it already is. The only thing that AS code does is make the
confusingly entangled JXA code look good by comparison, and JXA is an
incompetent busted obfuscated piece of crap that I wouldn't wipe my ass
on for professional work. Good grief.
Oh, and for those thinking I'm being terribly unfair, don't say I'm ever
afraid to stick my money right where my big mouth is:
https://github.com/hhas/applescript-stdlib
As-per it's dragging on twice as long as intended, but except for the
Web library (which is still to complete) all the commands are more or
less finalized, I'm adding documentation and examples, and I'm slowly
grinding towards full[ish] test coverage despite a marvellously obscure
and nasty bug deep in the AppleScript implementation that causes it to
crash my test scripts through no fault of their own. THAT is what
professional, production-quality AppleScript library code looks like,
not this infantile copy-pasta toy nonsense. And I've also said I'll turn
that code over to Apple wholesale, so they can stick it in the OS and
stop embarrassing themselves with garbage like this, because THAT
QUALITY OF PRODUCT is the VERY MINIMUM that AppleScript USERS DESERVE.
I am up to my eyeballs this week (and probably next too) in artwork
automation work, but if Apple gives the slightest fucks about putting
out high quality AppleScript documentation I will be happy to discuss my
rates. I may be rude, opinionated, lazy, and burnt out, but I understand
this wretched wonky language better than anyone else on the planet, not
to mention I used to work at one of the best educational publishers in
the land and already pounded Apress's chaotic tome into a mostly
excellent coverage of the subject, so know a thing or two about putting
together documentation that doesn't totally suck.
has
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