AppleScript vs. Bash vs. MRTK-Unity vs. SQLite Data Access Components Comparison Chart

AppleScript is a scripting language created by Apple. It allows users to directly control scriptable Macintosh applications, as well as parts of macOS itself. You can create scripts, and sets of written instructions, to automate repetitive tasks, combine features from multiple scriptable applications, and create complex workflows. AppleScript 2.0 can use scripts developed for any version of AppleScript from 1.1 through 1.10.7, any scripting addition created for AppleScript 1.5 or later for macOS, and any scriptable application for Mac OS v7.1 or later. A scriptable application is one that can be controlled by a script. For AppleScript, that means being responsive to inter-application messages, called Apple events, sent when a script command targets the application. AppleScript itself provides a very small number of commands, but it provides a framework into which you can plug many task-specific commands, those provided by scriptable applications and scriptable parts of macOS.

MRTK-Unity is a Microsoft-driven project that provides a set of components and features, used to accelerate cross-platform MR app development in Unity. Provides the cross-platform input system and building blocks for spatial interactions and UI. Enables rapid prototyping via in-editor simulation that allows you to see changes immediately. Operates as an extensible framework that provides developers the ability to swap out core components. A button control that supports various input methods, including HoloLens 2's articulated hand. Standard UI for manipulating objects in 3D space. Script for manipulating objects with one or two hands. 2D style plane which supports scrolling with articulated hand input. A script for making objects interactable with visual states and theme support. Various object positioning behaviors such as tag-along, body-lock, constant view size, and surface magnetism. Script for laying out an array of objects in a three-dimensional shape.