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Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct

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Re: Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct

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Post by 0x457 »

simquat wrote: post #7

Looks quite cool and I'd like to give a try. What is the main use case for compiling code to shortcuts? I ask because I'm working on a tool[0] that in a way does the opposite. [0] https://breadboards.io

What you're doing is visual programming. On its own there isn't anything wrong with it. However, specifically with Shortcuts it's not very pleasant for anything complex.

I had a full garden automation running on shortcuts, but it was extreme hard to maintain and improve due to "editor" being so bare bones.

Re: Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct

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Post by simquat »

0x457 wrote: post #21
simquat wrote: post #7

Looks quite cool and I'd like to give a try. What is the main use case for compiling code to shortcuts? I ask because I'm working on a tool[0] that in a way does the opposite. [0] https://breadboards.io

What you're doing is visual programming. On its own there isn't anything wrong with it. However, specifically with Shortcuts it's not very pleasant for anything complex. I had a full garden automation running on shortcuts, but it was extreme hard to maintain and improve due to "editor" being so bare bones.

Thanks for sharing. By the editor being bare bones do you mean some missing feature might change your mind about using it, or do you find the text-based editor much more comfortable?

Re: Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct

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Post by 6thbit »

alin23 wrote: post #8

I've just used this extensively to build 200 Shortcuts for my event-based automation app on macOS [0], because some actions you simply can't do without Shortcuts: changing Focus Mode, toggling Accessibility functions like Color Filters, accessing the Private Cloud Compute model etc. I also wrote about how Claude was able to basically learn the language from scratch and write those fully compilable Shortcuts for me [1…

Yeah having this opens up the LLM assisting path to build shortcuts. Which is great! Maintaining them by hand is not

Re: Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct

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Post by zimpenfish »

doc_ick wrote: post #24
RationPhantoms wrote: post #13

Still confused on why there is no social component of this? What is the best place to find examples of actual useful Apple Shortcuts?

Probably Reddit.

Specifically https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/ since it appears to be the last one standing.

Re: Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct

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Post by wiether »

Oh boy!

Creating/maintaining Shortcuts is such a pain!

Having to do it on a small iPhone screen with a touchscreen keyboard, through a no-code interface...

I want an actual text editor, I want to version things with git...

It feels like with Cherri I'll finally be able to actually do things!

Thanks!

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