Mac Automation Scripting Guide

AppleScript
#1

This looks new from Apple:

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/content/documentation/LanguagesUtilities/Conceptual/MacAutomationScriptingGuide/index.html

#2

That was released in March, but it looks like it’s recently been updated.

#3

It is interesting, and confusing. A guide with this same title existed before, but in the URL from above, this guide is in the “prerelease” section on Apple’s web site.

The page at
https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/content/documentation/LanguagesUtilities/Conceptual/MacAutomationScriptingGuide/RevisionHistory.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40016239-CH99-SW1

says this is a “New Document” as of 2016-07-30

Document Revision History
This table describes the changes to Mac Automation Scripting Guide.

Date
Notes
2016-07-30
New document that provides an introduction to using AppleScript and JavaScript to streamline workflows and increase productivity in OS X.

I wonder if this is part of the documents for macOS Sierra, and if there have been any changes since El Capitan?

#4

I’ve only looked at a bit of it, but it’s the same document as before. There have been some changes – ASCII character and ASCII number have finally been removed, although replaced with just the ASCII characters – but I don’t think it’s particularly dramatic.

AppleScript is still showing version 2.5, so if there are going to be changes there, they’re probably still to come.