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Too bold a statement. I'd say it is less likely to be flagged as a virus, but still can be (as people have reported here on the forum). But VxE is correct, no need to compile.

I've seen only one person reporting scripts of AutoHotkey_L got flagged as virus but never seen someone reproduced the same behaviour. So it's not confirmed. Therefore, I'd say AutoHotkey_L's compiled scripts have been 100% clean so far. Also, it's up to the user whether to compile scripts or not. If there is a machine that cannot install AutoHotkey, a compiled script could be a solution.

As you are aware you don't need to install AutoHotkey in order to be able to run AutoHotkey scripts. And if one person experienced it there might be a few more, they simple haven't reported it (yet)

might be. seems there are users wanting to call the program having a virus WTH

No I didn't say that at all, I'm just against compiling as I see no reason whatsoever and it might cause additional concerns with false positives.

Compiling helps in deployment. Especially with AHK_L which introduces new language features with a high frequency, uncompiled scripts are bound to suffer from version conflicts.

Not taking into account basic v _l - I've yet to experience a script that suddenly no longer works when upgrading _l (apart from one very minor bug which I reported and was fixed with a day or so).
Portable uncompiled scripts are much more convenient for me than compiled ones, it is so much easier to make improvements to the script directly on the USB stick.

The reason is that the resource of information of this program is only from these forums. And the problem is that this is a crackers' community. An employee who visits this web site will lower his/her reputation. Accordingly, employees cannot suggest to use this program for the company. Therefore, companies won't use this program.

I have no idea what you base this comment on but i work now in my second enterprise using AHK as well as for a startup on the side that uses AHK. I have been sought out based on my forum presence for years. The first organization started using AHK as a suggestion by a couple users. I find your statement very odd

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What?!? They think we are crackers?

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I am also at my second company using AHK.

I'm not a "computer programmer" by job title, but at my last job, I was asked to automate several processes using AHK since I already knew the language and processes in question.

My current job has me doing lots of data entry with modifications to fit certain standards. I use AHK to simplify and speed the process, and my boss is rather happy with the results.

Neither of these companies have ever even seen the AHK forums, they just chose the language since I knew it and the processes involved, so I suggested that I could write the software for them with a minimal investment of time at my normal pay rate (sold myself short of both occasions, but I was automating mundane portions of my own job anyway ).

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Technically, third company, if you count writing job estimate calculators for my father's company as one.

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No, they think we are a crackers community.

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