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AutoIt MVP member here (James on the forums). I'm really glad to see a replacement for AutoIt and AHK and potentially, if not already, cross-platform too. I c
by jbrooksuk 11y ago
AutoIt MVP member here (James on the forums).
I'm really glad to see a replacement for AutoIt and AHK and potentially, if not already, cross-platform too.
I can't speak for AHK but AutoIt has made huge progress over the last couple of years. Jon has been working on new features, especially improved COM support.
Maybe RobotJS will have a community too? It'd be great to see UDF's and a thriving ecosystem.
- octalmage 11y agoAwesome! AutoIt is great. AutoHotkey wouldn't exist if it wasn't for AutoIt. AutoHotkey has also improved a bunch recently. Lexikos picked up development and he's done a killer job. But unfortunately it (and AutoIt) will never be cross platform. That's why I made RobotJS. I honestly never thought about a community but that's an amazing idea. A classic forum would be great, I've spent so much time on the AutoHotkey/AutoIt forums. I'd love for this to happen.
- bmh100 11y agoWhy won't it ever be cross-platform? Would the effort just be too gargantuan?
- striking 11y agoIt's too directly tied to the Windows API. The vast majority of non-language code would have to be rewritten to run correctly, unless they emulate the Windows API instead.
- octalmage 11y agoThere's been many attempts over the past 5 years and IronAHK got the closest, but yeah both languages rely 100% on Windows specific APIs. I hope later on to write an AHK to JavaScript compiler/interpreter. This would make the language more portable.