It's cool to rediscover Applescript for me (I'm late 40's) but it's a funny thing where I can like smell the NeXT in it almost nostalgically but it's quite handy in this new era of hijacking mac mini's (OpenClaw obviously is one way to do it, but why not just straight to the core).
I personally think coders get better with age, like lounge singers.
AppleScript doesn’t have any NeXT heritage, it comes entirely from classic MacOS (debuted in System 7.1)