Scripting isn’t dying, it’s doing great.
For example, every competent system engineer needs to be comfortable with scripting, bash/ksh/zsh on *nix, power shell and vbscript on windows.
I don’t know what kind of application is the author talking about, and what kind of support does he need. Here on windows I can automate things just fine.
Some apps, like all OS components, web browser, ms office, visual studio, and photoshop have their own APIs exposed, documented and supported. For other apps I can use OS-provided UI automation API if I need to.
In addition, the industry has shifted towards open file formats and network protocols. This makes possible to process other app’s data in a way that was impossible in the early days of that amiga’s, when most data formats were binary because performance.
Average end users ain’t doing all that things but that’s not a technical problem. Just demography and marketing. Old computers were expensive equipment targeted towards scientists and engineers. Modern computers are cheap, they’re for everyone from 5 years old to 100+ years old who use them to post selfies and watch cat movies. You cannot teach them all programming, they have better things to do with their lives.
I don’t know what kind of application is the author talking about, and what kind of support does he need. Here on windows I can automate things just fine. Some apps, like all OS components, web browser, ms office, visual studio, and photoshop have their own APIs exposed, documented and supported. For other apps I can use OS-provided UI automation API if I need to. In addition, the industry has shifted towards open file formats and network protocols. This makes possible to process other app’s data in a way that was impossible in the early days of that amiga’s, when most data formats were binary because performance.
Average end users ain’t doing all that things but that’s not a technical problem. Just demography and marketing. Old computers were expensive equipment targeted towards scientists and engineers. Modern computers are cheap, they’re for everyone from 5 years old to 100+ years old who use them to post selfies and watch cat movies. You cannot teach them all programming, they have better things to do with their lives.