Others have touched on this farther down, but this always sets me off: AppleScript is not confusing because of its native syntax. It's confusing because of the

Others have touched on this farther down, but this always sets me off: AppleScript is not confusing because of its native syntax. It's confusing because of the inconsistent, often contradictory, incomplete, and sometimes just insane dictionaries provided by the various apps you access with AppleScript. Switching to JavaScript will do exactly zero to fix that. However, there appears to be new functionality inherent in the implementation, including better integration of native code (oddly, the examples are in ObjC instead of Swift), and I assume this will be faster than AppleScript. If this increases the popularity of writing scripts, then perhaps app-writers will improve their dictionaries.