[pbowyer]

I played with Auto Hotkey (AHK) recently as I wanted to add a layer to my keyboard. Wow, what powerful software! But I really disliked the scripting language and wished they'd used a standard language.

I ended up installing TouchCursor [1] which did everything I need at present, but will persevere with AHK.

1: http://martin-stone.github.io/touchcursor/

[tbronchain]

I totally agree with the pain of their scripting language.

Here is mine, it's very basic but does the few things I wanted (i.e run a program with a combination of keys): https://gist.github.com/tbronchain/c52b610a76eac8c26faae9ad2...

[mdiesel]

Look at AutoIt. It's a more traditional basic language, and iirc AHK was a fork of a very early version a few decades ago.

[PhasmaFelis]

Yeah, AHK is amazing and worth learning, but its scripting language is astonishingly awful.