A baseline on AutoIt

I have been a big fan of the programming language AutoIt for several years now and wanted to set a baseline to build on explaining why I feel it is an invaluable tool for any Windows user and why I will surely be talking about it and posting code in the the future.

AutoIt's Strong Points

• Simple easy to use BASIC like syntax.
• Easy to read straight forward help file.
• Compiles to a single executable no run-time environment to install.
• A healthy community of enthusiastic contributors.

Reasons not to use AutoIt

• It's not cross platform, Windows only.
• It's not main stream so it may not look as good on a resume as another popular language.

From time to time AutoIt solves all sorts of small problems for me I'm sure I will post some of them or some AutoIt examples in the future.

AutoIt started life as user interface manipulation system designed for instillation automation. It quickly gained a some use from the community for other user interface manipulation tasks like game bots.

A video of a (not necessarily well executed) minesweeper bot.




Another fun example of AutoIt playing a game.



AutoIt is good for much more then game bots, I use it daily at work for all sorts of tasks.

Programming today is too easy for everyone not to do it.  

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