Does anyone yet know whether AppleScript will run on macOS 11 Big Sur particularly on Apple SOCs? I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple hasn’t released any documentation on this as yet but hopefully more will be known once people get their hands on the developer kit hardware.
Perhaps a question that might be more easily answered now is: Is running on Apple’s own chips likely to affect AppleScript? Presumably applets have a chance of working with Rosetta 2 but will regular compiled scripts?
I don’t think anyone will be able to answer authoritatively for a little while yet, but there’s been no suggestion it won’t.
(I was rather heartened to see that one of the samples in the slide showing new icon styles was for a .scptd document.)
Looking through the updated docs (which are still somewhat minimal), I’ve not seen indications that AppleScript is gone. There’s even a small update to the ASOC frameworks.
That’s encouraging!
I wasn’t sure from a technical standpoint whether Apple would have to specifically do any work to get AppleScript to work on ARM processes or whether that would come for free as a result of lower level changes. If engineering resources had to be specifically devoted to getting AppleScript to work on the new chips I could imagine it not getting priority, which would be devastating. Here’s hoping AppleScript makes it into macOS 11. 
Awesome! That’s encouraging. 
It look’s like AppleScript works in Big Sur. And display alert is now a less confusing method in regard to display dialog.
Thanks, I enjoyed that twitter thread too!