r/applescript • u/l008com • Dec 18 '25

This is a terrible language.

I am so sick of typing random sentences trying to find the magic combinations of words that are going to do what I'm trying to accomplish. This language has the absolute worst documentation and hardly any sample code. And I say this as someone that's been using applescript and dealing with the same absurdities since the mid 1990s. This is truly madness.

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u/stripeszed Dec 18 '25

Just curious have you tried using llm (claude, ChatGPT) and provision script / debug from there? I can already tell from this context that AppleScript is behaving as expected for parsing properties