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it's powerful and so few people know how to leverage it Because otherwise it is useless. It has the same fate as AHK scripting and similar little languages. Th
by wruza 4y ago
it's powerful and so few people know how to leverage it
Because otherwise it is useless. It has the same fate as AHK scripting and similar little languages. The language may be okay for its task, but if you cannot or do not use it for other things (unlike e.g. perl) at least from time to time, chances that you will learn and remember it are low. People know sed because regexps are everywhere. People use perl instead of awk, because they have a muscle memory for it. They may know [, find and glob for their relative generic-ness. They ignore awk and ahk because these are too niche to pay enough attention to. You either find a snippet or just move on.
If you are not constrained by a single line in a script, it’s easier to feed a heredoc into an interpreter of choice.
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- brokenmachine 4y agoahk is a lot easier than any alternatives for a lot of Windows stuff like window management. I use ahk scripts to arrange my windows for me and some other simple hotkey things. Wouldn't use it for "real" programming stuff though.
- wruza 4y agoYes, ahk is a great framework for its purpose. It’s hard to repeat it from scratch. But it would hugely benefit from literally any mainstream language around it. Imagine how many plugins simply wouldn’t exist or delivered quickly if e.g. vscode invented its own arcane vscodescript instead of js/ts. Or how richer desktop automation could be if ahk could use pip, npm, IDEs and interop other “junction” tech seamlessly.