Writing AHK Interpreters for Mac - Any plans for the future / current projects? And other Qs...
Posted: 11 Mar 2019, 21:29
Hello AHK Community
It seems that this is an issue with AHK - that it does not support other OS than Windows. Curious about why mostly all other programming languages have an interpreter for Mac, but AHK does not. It would seem that having this sort of support would help keep AHK more competitive, and without this support, AHK may never actually be as popular in terms of number of users as say.. Python?
I know that AHK is supported purely by users - I'm curious how other programming languages made that "jump" from being solely supported by users, to being able to actually hire employees to continue to develop and maintain the more mainstream languages (Java, Javascript, Python, C, C+, C#, etc.)?
While I'd love to develop an AHK interpreter for Mac, doing something like that is way over my head and I wouldn't have a clue on where to start (other than downloading AHK's source code, learning C++, and studying it). Maybe in the future when I have more knowledge, I could do this.
I'm curious, how would other programming languages that only have interpreters that support the Windows OS make that jump to also support Mac? From my understanding, C++ interpreters are supported on Mac. Is it because the underlying framework of the Mac OS is set up so different than Windows OS that it takes considerable amount of planning, time, and testing to "match up" Windows automation programming in C++ to create the equivalent output using with Mac automation programming in C++?
I wish had more support on other OS, for the sake of compatability, sharing, etc. I often have many friends and collegues who only use Mac, so I can't write any code for them in AHK. I recently heard of a business who somehow used Lua scripting in combination with AHK to provide AHK programming in Mac, but I don't know the fine details of that or how accurate it is.
I would love to somehow bridge this barrier / gap for AHK at some point... Are there any plans for the future to create this sort of support? Reading around recently it appears there are not many people actively working on AHK source code development, wish there was a way to jumpstart that current developer deficiency.
All insights, opinions, comments, and facts related to this are happily welcomed.
It seems that this is an issue with AHK - that it does not support other OS than Windows. Curious about why mostly all other programming languages have an interpreter for Mac, but AHK does not. It would seem that having this sort of support would help keep AHK more competitive, and without this support, AHK may never actually be as popular in terms of number of users as say.. Python?
I know that AHK is supported purely by users - I'm curious how other programming languages made that "jump" from being solely supported by users, to being able to actually hire employees to continue to develop and maintain the more mainstream languages (Java, Javascript, Python, C, C+, C#, etc.)?
While I'd love to develop an AHK interpreter for Mac, doing something like that is way over my head and I wouldn't have a clue on where to start (other than downloading AHK's source code, learning C++, and studying it). Maybe in the future when I have more knowledge, I could do this.
I'm curious, how would other programming languages that only have interpreters that support the Windows OS make that jump to also support Mac? From my understanding, C++ interpreters are supported on Mac. Is it because the underlying framework of the Mac OS is set up so different than Windows OS that it takes considerable amount of planning, time, and testing to "match up" Windows automation programming in C++ to create the equivalent output using with Mac automation programming in C++?
I wish had more support on other OS, for the sake of compatability, sharing, etc. I often have many friends and collegues who only use Mac, so I can't write any code for them in AHK. I recently heard of a business who somehow used Lua scripting in combination with AHK to provide AHK programming in Mac, but I don't know the fine details of that or how accurate it is.
I would love to somehow bridge this barrier / gap for AHK at some point... Are there any plans for the future to create this sort of support? Reading around recently it appears there are not many people actively working on AHK source code development, wish there was a way to jumpstart that current developer deficiency.
All insights, opinions, comments, and facts related to this are happily welcomed.