Michael Tsai on Twitter: "@grynspan That's what I thought, e.g. http://t.co/tKWhl1O7eq So I don't think this is a viable replacement for Apple events."

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Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai 14 Jul 2015

@grynspan Then how about offering a replacement?
Jonathan Grynspan ‏@grynspan 14 Jul 2015

@mjtsai I'm sorry, I read that as Apple Events, not AppleScript. AppleScript is yay! Apple Events are booooo.
Kyle S. ‏@optshiftk 14 Jul 2015

@grynspan @mjtsai How would you implement AppleScript without Apple Events?
Chris Parker ‏@ctp 14 Jul 2015 Grant Road Sylvan Park Area, Mountain View

@optshiftk @grynspan @mjtsai AE as transport is pretty terrible.
Jonathan Grynspan ‏@grynspan 14 Jul 2015

@ctp @optshiftk @mjtsai They were a really great idea at the time. Object-oriented IPC mechanisms are a Good Thing. But we have XPC now.
Jonathan Grynspan ‏@grynspan 14 Jul 2015

@ctp @optshiftk @mjtsai So, for IPC, you should be using XPC, which is also object-oriented and which is much easier to work with.
Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai 14 Jul 2015

@grynspan @ctp @optshiftk XPC is nice, but it doesn’t (yet?) work between apps. So it’s AE or nothing.
Jonathan Grynspan ‏@grynspan 14 Jul 2015

@mjtsai @ctp @optshiftk It's geared toward services, but the mechanism is agnostic to the nature of each endpoint. You can run app-to-app.
Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai 14 Jul 2015

@grynspan Could you point to an example where the apps are peers?
Jonathan Grynspan ‏@grynspan 14 Jul 2015 Cupertino, CA

@mjtsai Not off the top of my head. You need a daemon or agent acting as a middleman and imposing security, but two apps can talk through it

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@grynspan That's what I thought, e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8637206/is-possible-to-use-mac-os-x-xpc-like-ipc-to-exchange-messages-between-processes … So I don't think this is a viable replacement for Apple events.

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