What language should ahkpm be written in?

[joshuacc]

These are just my initial thoughts. Would love to hear from others as well.

AutoHotKey

✅ It's the language of the AHK community
❌ It's not really that great for general purpose programming
❌ No package management (yet) so would have to rely on a lot of copy-paste and/or custom code that could be left to libraries in other languages
❌ I don't know it very well

JavaScript/TypeScript

✅ I know it extremely well
✅ Commonly known
✅ Good package management
❌ Not a good way to produce standalone binaries

Rust

✅ Easily compiles to a standalone binary
✅ Plenty fast enough
✅ Good package management
❌ Very complicated language relative to what is needed (the memory model being the most complicated piece)
❌ I don't know it (yet)

Go

✅ Easily compiles to a standalone binary
✅ Plenty fast enough
✅ Well suited to the task at hand
❓ Package management
❌ I don't know it (yet)

[joshuacc]

At this point I'm leaning towards using Go.

[joshuacc]

And Go it is!