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Re: What do we know about Scriptarian?
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Re: What do we know about Scriptarian?


  • Subject: Re: What do we know about Scriptarian?
  • From: has <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 15:11:55 +0000

Phil Stokes wrote:
https://scriptarian.com

Has (the verb, not the person…) anyone actually bought and tried this out? It’s steal at only $10 if it does what they say, but…

HAS the person already did, natch. Did not need to: could tell by a single screenshot screenshot it was a donkey's arse, but do not say I never offer others every chance before I call them out.

Irony: that same author released another Swift micro-editor product months before, Robotarian. Exactly the same application, just a different toolkit attached, for controlling robotics. Great potential, because who the Hell wants to 'script' in Xcode? (Or, for that matter, do _anything_ in Xcode at all?) fired him a note, sweet as all pie, saying this editor app of his would be great for controlling Mac apps, and I already had just the software bridge too, so let's work together and get one out.

Ne'er a cheep back. Naturally assumed crappy internet randomly swallowed our attempt to communicate, cos that's what internet does. Might've tried a followup; can't remember, I didn't chase hard—not #1 priority.

...

Some months later, same author suddenly announces Scriptarian " allows you to easily automate macOS using the Swift programming language, providing a modern alternative to AppleScript". A-ha! REAL reason I never heard was that he was already building his OWN Apple event bridge to do Apple event Automation the way he KNOWS it ought to be done. My offer to help wasn't, you see: it was a direct assault on his special snowflake ego impugning he didn't know how to do it all himself.

Honor defended, attack repulsed:

  https://twitter.com/hhas01/status/793410426109304832

As I say, I LOLed.

Protip: Never go up against one guy on planet who's spent the last 13 years making a personal policy to eat such stuck-up stupidity for lunch. Scriptarian? Just one more know-nothing loser in a long chain of Fails. See also: aeve, RubyOSA, ScriptingBridge, JXA. And I know it's not just me that's the problem, because I'm sweet as pie when I want to be, and still get the exact same reaction now matter how hard I try. They get once chance from me now, and no more. The ONLY good thing I can say of the Scriptarian author is at least he refunds as soon as you ask. Again, I did not need to—$10 = less than the cost of my time to download and install it and start it up—but principle first: try to sell me shit product, no sale for you. Had it been $0, I'd have asked for that back too just to make that point.

If you really want self-punishment: my Twit feed and the r/Swift post where I took both Scriptarian and its idiot author apart provide more fun. Or you could even drop 10 to download it and try porting your powerful, business-critical workflow AppleScript over to it, and see how far that gets you. (Bonus for anything involving Adobe, Microsoft, FileMaker apps, or really anything that does useful work at all. And don't forget all your favorite `whose` clauses too!)

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So forget Scriptarian, and everything else that flapping muppets with nothing to show think that they're doing to help. The ONLY opportunity that even has a snowball's chance of not being instantly vaporized in "Siri Automation" Hell is SwiftAutomation, because it's the only one that has 16 years—or even 16 hours!—of preparation done for just this sort of moment. And getting Apple even to _notice_ it now requires a crapload of work; because every hungry young executive in business is looking to climb upwards—and no-one ever builds her name on her _predecessor's_ work; only by building her own Next Big Thing atop its murdered bones.

So, have you all filed your Radar tickets yet, and told all your AppleScript-loving friends to do so too? Cos if members of this mailing list can't even generate the slightest hint of a Network Effect to get Apple's attention on US, I sure as shit can't do it myself.

http://lists.apple.com/archives/applescript-users/2016/Nov/msg00077.html

Best,

has

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