Ha, yes. I kind of forgot about swift. But, remember Atwood's Law and all.
Apple have invested quite a bit into JS recently, with their new LLVM JIT for Safari, I believe? (OK, by Apple standards, not much investment, but the fact that they did it at all says quite a lot...).
Since they did all that work, and are committed to maintaining it now, would it not (in some way) make sense to then use the same pluggable scripting language VM into other parts of the OS, and deprecate applescript, etc?
Apple have invested quite a bit into JS recently, with their new LLVM JIT for Safari, I believe? (OK, by Apple standards, not much investment, but the fact that they did it at all says quite a lot...).
Since they did all that work, and are committed to maintaining it now, would it not (in some way) make sense to then use the same pluggable scripting language VM into other parts of the OS, and deprecate applescript, etc?