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steveax on June 8, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: JavaScript as an alternative to AppleScript on OS ...

There are other language interfaces to OSA. Frontier's UserTalk was an early implementation (and much more useful than AppleScript IMO) IIRC, there are also Python and Ruby bindings as well.

draegtun on June 8, 2014 [–]

Yes and a Perl bridge as been part of OS X for even longer time (just type man PerlObjCBridge form terminal).

Additional refs:

- https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin...

- http://www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/features/scripti...

- https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin...

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