AutoIt vs. Visual Basic vs. Windmill vs. Wing Python IDE Comparison Chart

AutoIt v3 is a freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting. It uses a combination of simulated keystrokes, mouse movement, and window/control manipulation in order to automate tasks in a way not possible or reliable with other languages. We looked at many editors to see which one was the most useful editor for AutoIt. We found SciTE and saw its potential and wrote a customized Lexer for the syntax highlighting and syntax folding and created a special installer called SciTE4AutoIt3. AutoIt was initially designed for PC "roll out" situations to reliably automate and configure thousands of PCs. Over time it has become a powerful language that supports complex expressions, user functions, loops and everything else that veteran scripters would expect.AutoIt is also very small, self-contained and will run on all versions of Windows out-of-the-box with no annoying "runtimes" required.

​Windmill is an open source developer platform and workflow engine that transforms scripts into auto-generated UIs, APIs, and cron jobs, enabling the composition of workflows or data pipelines for building complex, data-intensive applications with ease. Supporting various languages, Windmill allows users to write and deploy software up to ten times faster, operating with high reliability and observability on a self-hostable job orchestrator. It features auto-generated user interfaces based on script parameters, a low-code app editor for creating custom UIs, and a flow editor for constructing workflows using a drag-and-drop interface. Windmill manages dependencies automatically, offers robust permissioning and monitoring, and provides various triggers including webhooks, schedules, CLI, Slack, and emails. Users can develop scripts locally with their preferred code editors, preview them, and deploy using the CLI.