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Awesome! 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 h
by octalmage 11y ago
Awesome! 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.