[politelemon]

I'm looking at the AppScript site.

Is this like PowerAutomate, but for G Suite products?

Also I don't know why, looking at the site makes me think it's a candidate that Google is going to kill off without warning: https://www.google.com/script/start/

[simonw]

Apps Script is positively ancient at this point, first released in 2009: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Apps_Script

It's one of the Google products I worry least about, mainly because there are 15+ years of existing Google Sheets documents that people have built using it at this point. I don't think even Google would lightly break THAT many of their existing (often paid) users.

[htrp]

> I don't think even Google would lightly break THAT many of their existing (often paid) users.

Says everyone using GCP services that get deprecated.

[sanity]

So true, today I was trying to decide whether to use Google's Vertex vector search in a project - until I remembered Google's track record with pulling the rug on services. Made it an easy "no".

[tmpz22]

It stands out that it doesn't follow the Design System of many other Google products - wonder if that means it has its own fiefdom.

[dudus]

It's definitely quite popular inside Google itself, where all sorts of small and one-off systems are built and deployed entirely in AppsScript.

And it has had significant updates as well. The newer runtime is based on V8 using some clever way to isolate the code. Previously they used Mozilla Rhino as the runtime because it was easier to sandbox, but it was also very frustrating to work with.

Now the DX is much better with more recent and performant executions and a better UI.

If I sound like a sucker it's because I am and building with Apps Script is fun even with its limitations.

While Power Platform in comparison might be 100x more powerful for all I care and I still wouldn't touch it with a 10ft pole. Most frustrating experience I ever had.