AutoHotkey is an open source macro-making utility for Windows that can automate almost anything by sending keystrokes and mouse clicks. It can also create hotkeys for keyboard, mouse, joystick, and handheld remote controls. Similarly, it can create abbreviations that expand as you type them (AutoText). Finally, it makes it easy to create your own graphical user interfaces and custom menus.
In the worst case AutoHotkey stops at the current state;
bur this doesn’t matter for users who are only interested to automate tasks.
There are different people who are working on follow ups.
Lexikos → Autohotkey-L including unicode support ( i´ve renamed his exe to ahku)
You can see autohotkey as a follow up from the AutITscript.com#_project
i.e. ahk is using the compiler from autoIT
compare the msgbox syntaxes
ahk msgbox hello world
autoIT MsgBox(0, “msgboxTitel”, “Hello World!”)