Re: Scripting Better Applescript support requests !
Re: Scripting Better Applescript support requests !
- Subject: Re: Scripting Better Applescript support requests !
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2017 00:29:02 +0000
Jim Underwood <email@hidden>
Olivier,
There is, of course, JavaScript for Automation (JXA), which can do everything AppleScript can do.
This statement is complete horseshit. JXA was riddled with defects and
omissions the day it shipped. I sent Sal masses of detailed descriptions
of those problems while it was still in development, which he largely
ignored. Wrote them a reference implementation in record time
demonstrating how it should work, and Sal didn't even have the basic
manners to reply. Total waste of my time, not to mention destroying all
my goodwill and crucial support. Bear in mind, there's only a couple
people in the world competent to evangelize, educate, and support Mac
Automation on languages outside of AppleScript: Matt Neuburg, and me.
Matt already quit Mac for iOS development, and I only fell into
Automation again after other plans washed out.
I would've written the book on Automating your Mac with JavaScript and
built and supported the community around it. I previously buggered up
that community building part on appscript, but unlike some people I
actually learn from my mistakes and try to do better in future. I knew
that JXA was really the last chance to save Mac Automation from itself:
it could've won a massive new audience for application scripting and
totally rebooted both Apple and third-party enthusiasm, development, and
support. But given the defects in the JXA software and Apple's
piss-awful unprofessional attitude to its own products and supporters
(by which I mean Sal Soghoian's piss-awful unprofessional attitude as
representative of his employer) even I wasn't dumb enough to squander
any more time on something so fundamentally unfixable (and I don't mean
JXA).
There is a reason I spent the last 13 years writing AppleScript-quality
Apple event bridges for half-a-dozen incredibly popular languages. There
is a reason I'm the *only person* on the planet who's managed to do the
damned job right in the last 23. There's a reason Mac Automation is dead
on its ass. There's a reason Shane's petty sniping is doubly
hypocritical. (Where was he and his expert mouth when his BFF Sal was
making his career-ending mistakes? *Real* friends don't let friends ruin
AppleScript.) And there's I reason I continue pointing these things out,
cos if nothing else it should be a damn good teaching moment for those
not so arrogant or insecure to learn and do better.
has
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