When a program like Adobe Illustrator creates new versions, it has to have compatibility with your previous .AI files.
I notice a less influx in the forums. I don't know if it's real or just a false feeling. Or is it because they are spread between the "great divide of version 1 and 2"?
For people who are new to the forum and to the AutoHotkey language... obviously! They choose version 2 because we live in an age where new is always better (arguable), but they don't realize that almost all of what has been written so far (70 or 80%, maybe?) it only works with version 1. The same thing happens with the functions (those that someone has done occasionally for something very specific, but that still work for version 1). Many of them will not be changed for version 2.
This is my view of how things should have been done. Because if version 1 is installed and then version 2, both versions work. Why not make a package that installs both versions at once? With this option, newcomers could use scripts from both versions, without them noticing (invisible but transparent). Another issue is that AutoHotkey should incorporate its own editor. Idea also thought for initiates. Such an editor would ask (or be in your configuration) if you are going to script for version 1 or 2. This way you would put compatibility (#Requires) in your header. I know an advanced person will choose their own editor, but if an If you are new to AutoHotkey, you would have a much easier life with that editor, much better, always, than notepad or any other free editor.
It would also be desirable that in the "Ask for Help" forums there should be a fixed thread that guides people on how to create a new thread, and the requirements for your Post to have answers or not (be clear in your request, expose an example, put the script closest to what you want to work, advise that you first search to see if what you want already exists in the forum..., etc.) Most of the time it is not understood what users you need (one problem is the language, and another is to make yourself understood. I have noticed that most of the time they request something, when what they really need is something else, but they have not explained what they want or the utility of that little code ( what is it framed in, within what other more general purpose) Clumsy example: "I want to know how to make a knife", you show it to him, but what he really wanted was to take off his pants and he's going to cut it, when it would have been worth telling him that "the pants have a zipper to do what you want".
I always try to read between the lines what people want, but it is almost never clear, under their words and the way they express themselves (but, of course, that is the great dilemma of human communication).
. It's a good addition to a fully featured editor for sure, probably useful to almost every user (especially for a quick code testing without saving any file). Probably some (at least optional) auto-save-when-run mechanism should be added for beginners - for example, it could have one Run and one Save+Run button.
