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0 pointsIggleSniggle3y ago0 comments

I was trying to do a thing with AppleScript, and the barriers I ran into were not with the language, but with discovery of the APIs that Apple surfaces to the end user. In that regard, you’re better off with AppleScript. I can’t believe just how bad the AppleScript documentation is, but the js documentation is even worse; using js is just using AppleScript but with an additional layer of indirection that doesn’t provide any productivity gain.

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js23y ago

There's an O'Reilly AppleScript book that's pretty good.

The problem I always had with AppleScript is that it wasn't clear when I was writing AppleScript and when I was talking to an application's OSA dictionary (its "terminology" as Apple calls it in OSA).

Once I switched to Appscript (https://appscript.sourceforge.io/), that confusion went away. Of course I haven't used that in years since it's no longer supported and today I'd use JavaScript.

The issue though is that each application's terminology is isn't really documented. You can usually figure it out using Script Editor, but not always.

Some of this is documented here:

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/La...

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