Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct
by mihau on 3/27/2026, 11:39:44 PM
https://github.com/electrikmilk/cherri
Comments
by: subhro
Is this vibe coded? The README at least looks very LLM-ish.
3/30/2026, 7:21:51 PM
by: Ragingweb
I built a small app to follow my infant son's feedings and diaper changes. Simply used the shortcuts get content of url to call the API rest endpoints. This is much better !
3/30/2026, 7:19:49 PM
by: alin23
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.<p>I also wrote about how Claude was able to basically learn the language from scratch and write those fully compilable Shortcuts for me [1] because it was mind boggling to me that an LLM can do that. Curiously, this is becoming more and more normal in my mind.<p>[0] <a href="https://lowtechguys.com/crank" rel="nofollow">https://lowtechguys.com/crank</a><p>[1] <a href="https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/how-good-is-claude-really/#cherri" rel="nofollow">https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/how-good-is-claude-really/#che...</a>
3/30/2026, 6:25:11 PM
by: kbd
What can you do on a Mac with Shortcuts vs AppleScript vs Hammerspoon?
3/30/2026, 7:15:08 PM
by: lemontheme
Cool! As a professional programmer few things consistently succeed in making me feel inept like trying to build an Apple Shortcut
3/30/2026, 7:00:08 PM
by: RationPhantoms
Still confused on why there is no social component of this? What is the best place to find examples of actual useful Apple Shortcuts?
3/30/2026, 7:01:44 PM
by: simquat
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.<p>[0] <a href="https://breadboards.io" rel="nofollow">https://breadboards.io</a>
3/30/2026, 6:22:42 PM
by: _doctor_love
Very cool! IMHO Apple Shortcuts will finally get the love they're due in the age of AI.
3/30/2026, 6:50:22 PM
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3/30/2026, 5:38:20 PM
by: threecheese
I’m interested to understand how this is different than Jelly; they seem to be similar. Same for Scriptable. I’ve been looking at this to hand over to Claude to build Shortcuts, something which has a terrible development experience.
3/28/2026, 3:54:57 AM
by: hmartin
Could you explain more about how the signing setup works?<p>(That's what held me back most for spending more effort on shortcuts.)
3/30/2026, 5:33:53 PM
by: mwkaufma
"shortuct"
3/30/2026, 7:14:34 PM
by: aaronbrethorst
Adjacently, does anyone know of a Terraform-like syntax for creating GitHub Actions YML files?
3/30/2026, 5:18:51 PM