Thanks for the feedback , I will look into autohotkey but in the end autoit was just there to get me started, I want to look at a other languages just to see how it would be done differently.
Thanks for that link , I really did want to use python for my bot (i got reasonably far) , but after digging through the autoit docs it turned out that what I was trying to do in python could be done alot simpler in AutoIt. Specifically I did not have to worry about grabbing an image of the screen and then searching the image for a pixel (to determine the start location) , I could instead just search for the start pixel using a built function in autoit.