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As others have rightly noted AHK is amazing for what it lets you do on Windows. I've easily saved/earned over 100k USD from AHK. However, the AHK language is n
by sireat 3y ago
As others have rightly noted AHK is amazing for what it lets you do on Windows.
I've easily saved/earned over 100k USD from AHK.
However, the AHK language is not the most pleasant to use.
That leads to question why isn't there something as powerful available in Python
or say Lua.
Yes there is https://github.com/pywinauto/pywinauto https://github.com/pywinauto/pywinauto but in practice it did not work as well as AHK.
It is just WinAPI underneath so C# would be another choice if there was a nice wrapper library.
I guess the answer on why AHK is so popular is that it is ugly but it works.
- simula67 3y agoPyAutoGui is very good. I have been using it for a long time and rewrote some simple ahk automations with it recently. It's strictly not a one-to-one replacement (so I still use autohotkey) but the UI automation features are well-done.
- eviks 3y agothere is an effort to rewrite AHK in C# and support other OS https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=77248 https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=77248
- vxNsr 3y agoThe reason AHK is so popular is because the ugliness that most “real” programming languages won’t tolerate is what makes it so approachable in the beginning.
- hwayne 3y agoUpgrade to v2 if you haven't yet! It was just released earlier this year and makes the language a lot less ugly. No more command/function divisions, everything's just a function!
- edmundsauto 3y agoCan you elaborate on how you saved/earned money from it?