@beka_valentine 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
@beka_valentine 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
@beka_valentine I still use this stuff quite a lot, despite being warned off of it in the early 2010s because if was “all going away soon”. it’s been a solid 15 years of it all continuing to work perfectly well for me. I try to convince others to use it as well, but even other programmers mostly just ignore it since it’s kind of alien to the way programming works on the web now, and that’s most programming
@beka_valentine anyway it does feel like the magic is going away but it is still worth learning; both because it still works and can solve actual problems, and also because it would be good to learn lessons from it while it is still a living system and not just retrocomputing