HI have been using autoit for many years now.. and am decent with it and its been a pleasure to work with.
I can just make a folder.. toss a few .au3 files into it and click f5 and bam.. i have a GUI interacting with functions I can test.. before other programmers even have their IDE loaded..
Recently i wanted to make some web-based sites with websockets.. and so I started learning javascript/nodejs..... and its been a headache.. As a solo programmer I love to know what every single thing does in my code... the package manager feels awful to me and is so slow.... theres all these prompts/errors files that generate and I have no idea if they are even used.. ect. The syntax is a nightmare.. and it keeps changing.. callbacks/asynch/await.. a new frontend library every day.. typescript blah blah.. all stuff I really dont want to learn.
My question is.. have any of you autoit programmers found a 2nd language to use that you would recommend?
I want speed/ease of use.. I dont want to launch a giant IDE from microsoft.
I want to be able to work with Websockets.. SO maybe my only options are python, C++ and nodejs.
Since i have to learn htlm/css.. it feels like nodejs is the best choice...maybe this is jsut a dumb rant.. and ill go back to learning nodejs using chatgpt.