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by SPBS 2317 days ago
I would say autohotkey is far superior to python on windows. The runtime comes with everything you need, no need to install/manage external dependencies. For example, I copy-pasted a 324 line snippet from the forums (https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/16400-ahk-regex-tester-v2...) into an .ahk file and I immediately get a full GUI to test my regexes on, 13 years after the snippet was posted.

Additionally you can bundle the interpreter for your scripts into a standalone .exe that can run on anybody's windows machine without needing ahk installed. It's a one-click operation done in a program that was also written in autohotkey (https://github.com/AutoHotkey/Ahk2Exe). I can't imagine anything as resilient as AHK when it comes to scripting automation programs on windows.