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It would be interesting to mandate that all Mac Apps be written in Javascript so users could modify them.

It would be interesting to mandate that all Mac Apps be written in Javascript so users could modify them. However this seems ambitious. Even mandating that all apps be scriptable seems to be a bridge too far. Note that Javascript is supported in addition to AppleScript as a user level scripting language. Much of the Mac OS is in fact open source -- see Darwin and other projects. However having the code for the OS available -- or having XCode installed -- does nothing for user programmability. This comment is a good example of why it doesn't work for us developers to see ourselves as typical users.

Posted by jedharris on Jan 31, 2015, 8:09 PM

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It would be interesting to mandate that all Mac Apps be written in Javascript so users could modify them.

jedharrisJan 31, 2015, 8:09 PM

It would be interesting to mandate that all Mac Apps be written in Javascript so users could modify them. However this seems ambitious. Even mandating that all apps be scriptable seems to be a bridge too far. Note that Javascript is supported in addition to AppleScript as a user level scripting language. Much of the Mac OS is in fact open source -- see Darwin and other projects. However having the code for the OS available -- or having XCode installed -- does nothing for user programmability. This comment is a good example of why it doesn't work for us developers to see ourselves as typical users.

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