Dude got sacked because he was WORSE than useless. I mean, they gave him JavaScriptCore to turn into a full user product, right at the time Node.js was gaining desktop JavaScript a million-plus users, and he ran it straight into the ground.
Never mind AppleScript; Mac Automation should’ve had MILLIONS of new Python, Ruby, ObjC, JavaScript, and Swift users by now. The problems were solved, the pieces were there—all Soghoian had to do was put them together in Mac OS X and take all the credit. (I know this: I was the one that solved it.) And App Developers would be falling over themselves to provide great scripting interfaces, because they’d all be huge Automation fans too. All that idiot did was UNsolve it again; and then—to slap insult on injury—immediately abandoned his half-baked products and hapless users to fail all by themselves.
“AppleScript needs a minor UI overall”
Oh bless. Look, AppleScript’s dead already. Any future Mac Automation has lies in [Conversational] Shortcuts… assuming Apple bother to put in the mass marketing and support resources it so urgently now needs. Though given their curret quality of management, I’m not making bets.
Dude got sacked because he was WORSE than useless. I mean, they gave him JavaScriptCore to turn into a full user product, right at the time Node.js was gaining desktop JavaScript a million-plus users, and he ran it straight into the ground.
Never mind AppleScript; Mac Automation should’ve had MILLIONS of new Python, Ruby, ObjC, JavaScript, and Swift users by now. The problems were solved, the pieces were there—all Soghoian had to do was put them together in Mac OS X and take all the credit. (I know this: I was the one that solved it.) And App Developers would be falling over themselves to provide great scripting interfaces, because they’d all be huge Automation fans too. All that idiot did was UNsolve it again; and then—to slap insult on injury—immediately abandoned his half-baked products and hapless users to fail all by themselves.
“AppleScript needs a minor UI overall”
Oh bless. Look, AppleScript’s dead already. Any future Mac Automation has lies in [Conversational] Shortcuts… assuming Apple bother to put in the mass marketing and support resources it so urgently now needs. Though given their curret quality of management, I’m not making bets.