Forward movement vs Tilting at windmills [Re: Apple script and hypercard]
Forward movement vs Tilting at windmills [Re: Apple script and hypercard]
- Subject: Forward movement vs Tilting at windmills [Re: Apple script and hypercard]
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 17:52:56 +0000
edmund ronald wrote:
I'm not signing this - I WANT AUTOMATION, MODERN AUTOMATION, NOT THIS
LEGACY PIG.
Then please file two Radar tickets, fifteen minutes of your time:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/applescript-users/2016/Nov/msg00077.html
That gets you SwiftAutomation in 10.13, which snares thousands of fresh
exciting new Swift developers into Automation's net, scriptability into
hundreds of fresh exciting new macOS Apps.
That in turn gets Apple to think…"Oh-ho, have we missed a highly
leverageable opportunity here?"
...
'Cos if you can get client-side AE support into Swift for 10.13, the
next task is to get brand new AE support into the server-side
(Swift-based Apps) as quickly as possible after that.
And once you've got both of those pieces in place—bearing in mind that a
modern alternative to CocoaScripting has the chance to cook in all the
new features modern IPC now requires—sandboxing (user safety and
security is mandatory #1), self-generating documentation (cos why write
interface descriptions twice when you can write one and get the second
for free?), full interactive inspection/exploration (SD fans will know
exactly what I mean), official specification (so programmers now know
how to implement scripting support right!)—you can you can just swap out
Apple events for whatever the hell transport system you like—Mach
messages, HTTP, even some rivals' protocols we will not mention here—and
get it for free on iOS and internet as well! Now you have complete,
mature, PROVEN Automation infrastructure available EVERYWHERE!
...
And while that ton of bricks is going down, you cook up a new
"English-like" end-user scripting language that actually works right—one
which can be DICTATED as well as written and read—and you call it
SiriScript so everybody—EVERYBODY—on this planet knows EXACTLY what that
is for.
And that's your game-changing SiriAutomation ready to deliver as well.
Cos now instead of being the exclusive domain of a few thousand
AppleScript holdovers, you've got a BILLION[1] new users ready to market.
--
Look, I might be manic at the moment (sorry 'bout that), but I'm not
delusional: I've been formulating this plan silently for several years
now—almost since poor appscript landed in the trashcan. As long as the
energy lasts I will try to extract useful work from it, but there's only
one of me whereas there's a thousand of you; and millions more beyond
you. So while I can cope with the scutwork of making SwiftAutomation
code work, you lot need to pull yourselves together to do the absolutely
critical work of *selling it*… to yourselves, to everyone else, and to
Apple!
SwiftAutomation—that is a concrete product, ready to drop into 10.13dev
right now. OUR opportunity to win Mac Automation its first new market
and first 1000 customers in 20 years. Less than 6 months in which to
achieve this (i.e. BEFORE WWDC17). Needs its disastrous tutorial page
sorted out (I've learned how to do it now, so just time and new
words—and hopefully someone willing to copy edit it for everyone else
<hint>).
So start selling OUR product please, right now. Otherwise go start
packing, cos if Swift won't Automate THE TOTAL TAR out of your Mac in
macOS 10.13, by the time 10.16 comes around the only Automation you'll
be doing worth a crap is when you're on Windows instead.
Many thanks,
has
--
[1] Swift Playgrounds? Please! Tim might as well stand on stage and cry
"Homeopathy For Sale!" If only Seymour had Steve Jobs to market his Logo
vision to the world: not only would it be used in every school now, but
it would have fundamentally redefined what "school" means as well.
Seriously, go read Papert's Mindstorms—and if you still think Logo was
"computer programming for driving a turtle" then it merely confirms how
utterly School has ruined _your_ capacity to think for yourself as well.
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