![]() Yeah, I can spin up a kubernetes environment pretty quickly from the command line using minikube or a few alternatives, but on OSX I can use Kubesolo which ties into Corectl and lets me control systems from the task tray. ![]() The app ecosystem is just light years beyond anything that Linux offers. ![]() Maybe Linux needs some sort of all encompassing app store to incentivize development. Now, this is totally the fault of developers and not Apple. Linux is the "here's source code, good luck, also the UI was put together in QT in 20 minutes." But unfortunately there are a huge number of fantastic applications that are only developed with OSX (and sometimes Windows) in mind. The thing separating OSX from Linux nowadays is application quality and ubiquity. If you start with an existing Linux system and polish it, instead of starting from scratch, write the drivers and design the hardware to match, and use the needs of your own tens of thousands of in-house producers to guide you, surely you, Google, could come up with something even more attractive to your own developers, artists, producers, inventors than a product built by your competitor that optimizes for thinness, restrictions based on Apple's future plans, and lock-in to Apple stores, products, and services. Then there are the thousands of Google employees back in the office trying to invent the future with walled garden Apple hardware and operating systems. There is something wrong when you go to dev conferences, where Apple never shows its face, and you have a sea of Apple laptops in the crowd, many of them Google employees. If you have thousands of CS PhDs on staff looking for something to do and Apple-scale financial power, you ought to be able to design a Linux system (hardware and software) optimized for producers, not consumers. Overall, I’m currently quite confident that PopClip will be able to continue all its capabilities in future.I think Google should do it. This is what I a currently building into PopClip, and it will be the main platform for PopClip extensions in future. As well as being built into Safari, Apple also provides developers a really efficient way to bridge between JavaScript and native code. It is not really a classic scripting language (thought it can be used like one using node) but its importance to the web means that Apple has paid it a lot of attention. I’ve included this in its own category because JavaScript is a singular beast. (PopClip extensions can already run AppleScripts, and the next version of PopClip will be able to run Shortcuts too.) For one thing Shortcuts itself can run AppleScripts and even shell scripts - it’s surprisingly powerful. There has long been speculation that Apple is trying to kill off this kind of scripting, but I’m not convinced about that. That would include AppleScript, Automator and now Shortcuts. (PopClip extensions can use all these scripting languages, as long as they are installed on the Mac.)Īutomation scripting. Classic scripting would also include shells scripts in bash, zsh etc. Indeed, many developers in these languages install the latest versions with tools like homebrew, and never even use the system-installed version. However we can still install these ourselves. Apple has removed the PHP runtime and deprecated the others. That would include things like Perl, Python, Ruby and PHP. The term “scripting”, in the Mac context, has probably 3 meanings:Ĭlassic scripting languages. ![]() I actually don’t think the removal of PHP and the introduction of Shortcuts are related, at least not in the sense of Apple having a strategy to push things in a certain direction. Can you elaborate on that, this utility is essential Mac !!Ĭertainly… it’s a good question. I do have a question though, you intimated in a post about Popclip going forward and Apple’s direction to kill off scripting in favour of shortcuts I assume (well that is how I read it). ![]()
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