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This looks like an interesting project. I was really big into the AutoIt community back in the day. I think being able to write programs that simulate user in
by drakenot 10y ago
This looks like an interesting project. I was really big into the AutoIt community back in the day. I think being able to write programs that simulate user input is a great way to learn programming. It is an amazing thing to watch an automation script you wrote fly through controls, menus and actions of 3rd party programs as fast the program can keep up.
I remember all the drama surrounding the split or "fork" of AutoHotkey from AutoIt and the subsequent changing of licenses to make future AutoIt releases closed source.
Being able to write AutoIt-like scripts but in a cross-platform way would be great.
- vvvway 10y agoYep,Can be directly packaged binary and easy cross-platform is the reason for choosed Go.
- pmoriarty 10y agoWhy did AutoIt split from AutoHotkey? I hadn't even heard there was a split. Is there somewhere I can read more about this? Which is the dominant user input automation tool on Windows these days? I'd thought AutoHotkey was it, but maybe not?
- vvvway 10y agoSome controversy ...
- drakenot 10y agoIt was the other way around. AutoIt is older than AHK. My understanding was that a developer wanted to add "hotkey" functionality to AutoIt and this didn't garner much interest from the AutoIt folks. So, the developer then decided to create AutoHotkey which was source compatible with AutoIt v2. The rest I'm a little hazy on. I believe that it was this fork that led to AutoIt switching to closed source. They both have been in development for years now after the switch and I don't believe that AHK maintains scripting compatibility with AutoIt any longer. They have diverged at this point.