I just tried Hammerspoon for the first time this week and it's really, really powerful. Currently working on an automation suite for a bunch of tedious "micro-workflows" that I deal with on a daily basis.
IIRC Autohotkey makes an application from your hotkey choice that you then run (eg via autostart or using an icon) to instate the hotkey afresh every reboot.
To this end it seemed inferior to the KDE equivalent for me, but that could just be familiarity bias.
Not just that, no. Its programming language is godawful, but the tight integration with the Windows API makes it powerful in a way that shell scripts and the like cannot easily match.
- We have a team call and a team agenda doc, I'm using a hotkey to open a chooser, which has an option "goto team call" that fires up the call window and the doc.
- We deal with prod/dev so I made another item in the chooser "log in to dev server" which opens a chrome incognito window, presses the one password unlock shortcut and then I'm just waiting there to input 2 factor.
As I uncover more of these, I'll be coding them up and using the master chooser to deal with any annoying workflows. :)