u/xyzzy0

Quite often here lately, I’ve seen people post a script or ask for help, and they’re using AHK v1.

AHKv2 has been the stable release for a while now. The syntax is cleaner, it’s more consistent, and it’s clearly the future of the language. It’s quite a bit better.

Why would you choose to learn the older version from scratch (especially given the brain-melting syntax, as u/Keeyra_ put it)? For me, I’ll admit that I’m locked in to v1 for my work, so there’s that. But I’ve switched to v2 for everything else.

Is it outdated tutorials? Misleading search results pointing to old docs? Path dependency? Locked in for some reason? Genuinely curious what’s driving this.