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nxrabl | 1 month ago

> Don't people know stuff anymore?

No, no one has ever known anything, and every day people are born knowing even less. This is a strangely aggressive way to share this interesting information, especially for MacOS programming, a platform requiring such byzantine arcane knowledge I'm amazed people write anything for it at all. At least for Win32 people wrote books you could buy and not blog posts.

Anyway, thank you for the introduction to the very cool SwiftScripting project [0], extracting programmable interfaces directly from app bundles. It's just like COM, right? nice to see MacOS catching up (/ragebait)

[0] https://majestysoftware.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/swift-scrip...

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frizlab|1 month ago

AppleScript: First appeared 1993.

COM: First appeared 1993.

Yup. Catching up.

I understand the rage, but get your facts right.

Also, FYI the interesting part about the post is getting the extracted code in type-safe Swift code. Getting the extracted code for ObjC is trivial and any seasoned macOS developer should already know how to do it.