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Discussion on: AutoHotkey Beginner Tip #1: Assignment Vs Expression Operator Usage

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Ian Pride • Edited

As I stated in my post it has some places that other tools do far better in so lots of people consider it useless and outdated and it also has a bad reputation as a cheating/hacking tool when that's just a small part of it. Hell the best game hacking tools are written in languages like C++ and assembly...

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Julian Iaquinandi

It's a shame it has that rep, as you say there are probably much better placed tools to do so. Outdated, maybe? But if it ain't broke don't fix it!

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Ian Pride

Outdated because the Windows environment is changing and more dependent on UWP in areas and AHK was built for win32 applications and the AHK devs don't really work on it much anymore. There is an AHK v2, but it's actually a bit different and not even as well maintained as V1. In order to use it with UWP you need Selenium so then it's not a stand-alone application. Not that big of an issue to me, but it is for many.