AutoHotkey Community

To me, the strength of autohotkey is humanly readable nature, a new user can read for minutes and program complex programs prolifically, and a strong, helpful forum to help people over the humps.
This makes the vacation programmer possible. Not just the professional, full time.

As the vacation programmer, I found my entire vacation spent learning the basics of other languages and zero time programming. Next vacation, relearning what I already learned.

Only downside if ahk is lack of linux, and under wine. Javascripting lacks stability and speed; js constantly lockup every machine I use and slow surfing (4 home machines/2 of my machines are dedicated linux, and scores of library machines, which also lockup on pages.) Python and lua look interesting, but probably lack ahk's ability to getwintitle and send keys--key to many of my scripts I write that fill holes in my downloaded programs. Also, not sure how the groups of lua and python compare with ahk. I am guessing poorly, as the very existence on the linux platform would muddy waters and bring in alot of unhelpful, pseudo intellectual snobs (though I think that generation of linux user is fading).

Without getting in to the math, I am looking for the shoe leather answer: groups, learning curve (ahk is near zero, to me), functionality.