Best Language for Key Remap Program

[ASETNIOP]

Hi everyone,
I'm the designer of ASETNIOP; things have been dormant for me for a long time but I've just recently gone diving back into the code and want to start working on a desktop version.  I'm hoping to write something similar to the functionality of AutoHotKey; i.e. something that will allow me take over keystrokes coming from the keyboard and deal with them my own way.  Does anyone have any advice over what language would be best to use to do this?  I'm not doing anything particularly complicated on the back end; it's just a lot of for loops and string manipulation.  Mainly I'm interested in something where it will be fairly easy to interpose the program between the keyboard input and what eventually gets sent to the computer. 

Any suggestions?

[user 18]

Probably can't go too far wrong writing something in C.

[Sygaldry]

Seconding the C recommendation.

[ttzhou]

thirded for C.

there's a reason linux kernel is written in it.

[ASETNIOP]

Cool, I'll take a good hard look at that first.  Thanks for the advice, folks!

[metalliqaz]

thirded for C.

there's a reason linux kernel is written in it.

Yes, because Linux is a kernel.  If I understand OP correctly, he would be creating two programs: a driver and a GUI.  For the former, C is an obvious choice.  For the later, C is miserable.  It's 2015!  I'd probably use C# .NET for Windows, and for *nix I'd use Python.

[ttzhou]

thirded for C.

there's a reason linux kernel is written in it.

Yes, because Linux is a kernel.  If I understand OP correctly, he would be creating two programs: a driver and a GUI.  For the former, C is an obvious choice.  For the later, C is miserable.  It's 2015!  I'd probably use C# .NET for Windows, and for *nix I'd use Python.

I consider the GUI as a separate component. I interpreted his question as best language to write the core functionality (the driver, as you mention).

GUI is overrated  But yes, an OOPL would be a lot better. And Python's main implementation is still in C

[ASETNIOP]

thirded for C.

there's a reason linux kernel is written in it.

Yes, because Linux is a kernel.  If I understand OP correctly, he would be creating two programs: a driver and a GUI.  For the former, C is an obvious choice.  For the later, C is miserable.  It's 2015!  I'd probably use C# .NET for Windows, and for *nix I'd use Python.

I consider the GUI as a separate component. I interpreted his question as best language to write the core functionality (the driver, as you mention).

GUI is overrated  But yes, an OOPL would be a lot better. And Python's main implementation is still in C

This is correct; I'll be needing a driver and a GUI.  It's meant to be a touch-typing system, however, so the GUI is kind of a secondary consideration (aimed more at beginners) so I'll be aiming a lot more of my focus on the driver part.