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OSA JavaScript recipes
OSA JavaScript recipes
For a while, you've been able to script Mac OS using JavaScript using JavaScript for Open Scripting Architecture (JSOSA). This is a huge improvement on AppleScript. Why? JavaScript isn't a great language, but it broadly follows the conventions that programming languages of the C/ALGOL family have followed for decades. AppleScript is a horrendous mess that should never have come into being.
#javascript#macOS#Apple#osascript#programming
·gist.github.com·
OSA JavaScript recipes
Starboard
Starboard
Site that sort of provides active JavaScript notebooks, with a view to doing most/all of the work on the client side. I was sort of hoping there'd be a self-host option or something and I'm not seeing that. On the other hand it could be a good tool for tinkering with and prototyping code.
#programming#javascript#web#markdown
·starboard.gg·
Starboard
The Pitfalls of Boolean Trap
The Pitfalls of Boolean Trap

Good little article about the pitfalls of using boolean values as parameters for a function. Not the first time I've seen this sort of thing (I'm sure I read a similar article years before, and a similar thing in a coding book even earlier).

Still good advice.

At least it's a little better in languages with keyword arguments.

#programming#javascript#api#design
·ariya.io·
The Pitfalls of Boolean Trap