Comment by CharlesW
2 hours ago
Out of curiosity, are you now or have you ever been a "Mac person"? I'm curious if you've ever gone down the rabbit hole on Apple's history of technologies for what I think you'd call "malleable computing" at the OS level, like Open Scripting Architecture/AppleScript and now App Intents?
If you're into malleable computing you'd never have been a "Mac person"
Yeah, NeXTSTEP is notoriously a locked-down, untweakable OS. It's not like anyone was able to use it to program anything of consequence.
How was OSA/AppleScript not an OS-level malleable computing layer?
I don't know first hand of anyone who ever used it for anything. Maybe I knew the wrong Mac users (mostly teachers).