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2026-07-01 17:38 UTC

and AppleScript was similar to HyperScript, so you could transition from scripting Hypercard stacks to scripting your whole computer, automating huge workflows, with relative easy eventually AppleScript lead Sal Soghoian developed Automator, a GUI tool to make it even easier

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@beka_valentine@kolektiva.social 2026-07-01 17:39

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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