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The Future of Mac OS Scripting
Posted By Quentin Carnicelli on June 3rd, 2008
Red Sweater: Apple should make JavaScript its default scripting language.
This is one of those things I’ve been advocating ever since JavaScript-based Dashboard arrived and received massive uptake. AppleScript was a nice experiment, but was never accepted by the mass market, and with good reason.
Randal L. Schwartz says:
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:15 pmHave you seen “Javascript OSA”? (http://www.latenightsw.com/freeware/JavaScriptOSA/jsStatus.html) – install it, and you can use Javascript for nearly everything you use AppleScript for. Yeay!
Quentin Carnicelli says:
June 3rd, 2008 at 3:04 pmOh sure, Javascript OSA is a nice start. But really I’m looking forward to a whole new scripting system without the overhead of OSA/Cocoa Scripting.
Chris L says:
June 3rd, 2008 at 3:45 pmIt sounds like a good idea. AppleScript never made sense to me (and I’ve been programming for 20 years). It seems all weird and imprecise.
Ben Burch says:
June 13th, 2008 at 6:29 pmI use Applescript every day.
And hate it.
Yes, Javascript would be a boon, all it needs is a way to send applevents into apps.
BTW, I really wish that Hypercard had come into the modern era; I loved Hypertalk! If the system scripting language had been based on Hypercard and Hypertalk I think we would have been MUCH better off.