Utility for repeating a key while held down for gameing?

Hey guys,
I've recently started playing a MMO game again that requires a lot of keyboard button spamming.
When I played this game on windows I used the AutoHotKey utility to write a script to repeat the key while I had it held down. Are there any utilities out there that I could use that would allow me to repeatedly send keyup/keydown events while I hold down a key? Preferably one that allows me to configure it to only do this when a specific window is focused.
If nothing already exists like this, I was planning on writing a very small utility in C that would do this.

xdotool would certainly work for sending keyup / keydown. But Is there a way I can make the script only do this when I'm holding down a key?
I suppose it may look something like this:
while true
do
# Do something to block while key isn't down
xdotool keydown --window $winid "x"
xdotool keyup --window $winid "x"
done

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(the "A" key for example), after a second or so, it would start to
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