That's why Autohotkey v2 exists, which is... AHK's own Python3 moment, since it was available for years. Well, ok, stable release was only like a year ago, but I don't see much adoption.
TFA uses V2. I also started using AHK just in time to use V2. Of course it will take time for all the V1 users to migrate, but for anyone starting now it makes little sense to use V1.
I believe I’m using v2, since I written most of my scripts last year by most recent documentation which mentioned “old ways” sometimes. But it didn’t make a big difference in that regard.
Part of the problem IMO is that AHKv2 is magnitudes better if you're a programmer, because it makes the entire language consistent and sane. But if most users aren't programmers, so they don't have the same burning incentive to switch.
it's just a bit tedious to convert even with the help of a converter, especially when you're dealing with libraries which you didn't write, but still very much worth it (you could maybe also do a lot of the conversion piecemeal and just run both for some time)
