DaveNet: Friday, July 18, 1997; by Dave Winer.

Moving into the Future

To those that slam me and say that I'm bitter about AppleScript, consider this...

The current version of Frontier is 4.2. AppleScript hasn't had a meaningful update in years.

Frontier is a multi-threaded environment, built around an object database, with a full suite of development tools, comprehensive verb set, it's fully PowerPC native and fast. The docs are getting great (thanks Matt!).

Frontier has been completely modernized to work with the web. Scripting and the web are very close cousins. Automated websites are the way of the future. AppleScript hasn't been updated since the web happened.

UserLand has completely supported all the power of the Macintosh. You look to Apple to provide your scripting software. I wonder why...? We continue to invest. Frontier 5 will ship on both Mac and Windows. You may not want the Windows version, so (here's an easy solution) don't use it!

We love our users, we support them, and we keep moving the product forward. If you want to stay in the past, have fun! We're moving into the future.

Dave Winer