AppleScript is a terrible yet reasonably well documented language. At the other end of the spectrum is JavaScript for automation (JXA), which exposes all the sa

AppleScript is a terrible yet reasonably well documented language. At the other end of the spectrum is JavaScript for automation (JXA), which exposes all the same APIs AppleScript does (modulo the spelling of function names), is a much more sane language, and is barely documented. I find that AppleScript is like bash and JXA is like python in terms of how complicated a script can be before you swift from the former to the latter.