Post #3551595

2026-07-01 17:39 UTC

but some time around 2005 or so, Apple the company stopped caring about these AppleScript and Automator, and let them languish, to the point where now, basically nothing is scriptable. HyperCard was also dead by this point. so routes into end user programmer were dwindling

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@glyph@mastodon.social 2026-07-03 06:46

@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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@beka_valentine@kolektiva.social 2026-07-01 17:41

or take the various WYSIWYG webpage making programs out there. there's a long history of them producing terrible code, except for a handful of them. iWeb was pretty decent IMO but as blog engines and then various SquareSpace-like web apps became popular, these apps REALLY faded

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