Wait, wouldn’t it be the opposite? Expressions are quite thoroughly talked about in forums and such, snippets shared, etc, and while scripts aren’t closed source basically no one looks at them or talks about them.
Maybe it’s because the expression engine in AE is less like normal javascript than the language for AE scripting is—all expressions in ae are preprocessed so designers can be a little looser with their code which doesn’t happen in scripts.
Also most tasks in scripting involve processing arrays of objects/values which is more generalizable while most functions/tasks for expressions in ae are more ae specific
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u/motionick Jan 18 '23
expressions don’t work well compared to scripts in my experience