[recursivedoubts]

applescript was a nightmare with zero autocompletion and a ton of magical strings and bad syntactic choices, some inherited from hypertalk, some not

i don't think an english-derived scripting language would be a bad thing (well, I wouldn't, since I created https://hyperscript.org, now would i?) if the tooling was good, I don't see a huge difference between someone dragging and dropping a for loop and an if statement and just typing

  for thing in whatever
    if the thing's field is false
      do something