I’ll look for the python interface that would be much nicer.
Python isn’t too hard to get going these days under Windows using the Anaconda distribution. I think python is finding use in the big data/analytics community these days (something called ‘panda’) and so getting it to run on Windows has become a priority.
You pretty much install Anaconda and then can make a .BAT file to launch any Python script from the Windows side fairly trivially.
The advantage is professional scientists and astronomers have been writing lots of code modules for Python to handle all kinds of astronomical problems. To solve many problems you usually just write some glue code to put these together.
Also I can make the code cross-platform and work with Linux/INDI fairly easily as well.