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Originally Posted by gaming_mouse
I've only used AHK once, but from my short experience with it I much prefer autoit and have always wondered about AHK's popularity here too....
As others have indicated first mover advantage. If the first few "poker developers" had used AutoIt then it would like dominate.
Most people (especially beginers) learn by doing. A generic tutorial on AHK or AutoIt doesn't really help them figure out how to do "x" in poker client.
Person 1 writes an AHK script. Person 2 knows nothing about scripting uses AHK script as a template to make 2nd AHK scipt. Third newb comes along sees two AHK scripts, takes parts form each and makes a third, etc.
5000 scripts later you have a crtical mass and it s unlikely that dynamic will change. Likely you could find other niches (like a particular video game) where AutoIt had the first mover status and the roles are reversed. The relative merits have much less to do with it than the first mover status. It is hard to be "almost as good as Ebay".
Last edited by DeathAndTaxes; 08-30-2011 at 12:12 PM.