Post #3551594
2026-07-03 06:46 UTC
@beka_valentine@kolektiva.social a lot of people seem to believe this and I am not sure why. there have been big improvements to the applescript ecosystem, including fine-grained access control inter-app user-consent support added during the gradual tightening of security during the introduction of code signing and notifications. I regularly use applescript. apple’s first party applications still have scripting support, and the mac version of Shortcuts even has applescript actions
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@glyph@mastodon.social 2026-07-03 06:46
@beka_valentine@kolektiva.social applescript is under-marketed, perhaps, but it’s still right there in macOS I strongly suspect that there is a big element of revealed preference here. users programmed out of necessity but they always kind of hated it; while Apple makes their apps scriptable, relatively few third party developers do, for the same reason that APIs have been falling out of fashion generally. shout out to the ones that make it a headline feature though, such as the Omni Group