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0x0203 | 6 months ago

Tcl/tk is still alive and doing well. It's cross platform, very quick to learn, and easily embeddable into other languages/projects.

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hollerith|6 months ago

Can you name an important software written in Tcl or Tk?

Important softwares written in Ruby for example include Rails and Homebrew.

coliveira|6 months ago

Tcl is the embedded language of git. Standard git gui is written in Tcl/Tk. Tcl is also the script language for sqlite.

doublerabbit|6 months ago

One of the big investment banks use TCL/TK, for real-time e-trading. Source my last gig.

The "important software" are normally kept behind NDAs, so you never hear about their uses. TCL was also used on the Mars Rover.

Take a look for yourself: https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Who+Uses+Tcl

SomeHacker44|6 months ago

The FPGA software from Xilinx and Altera are scripted with Tcl/Tk.

nilamo|6 months ago

Tk has been embedded in python as the GUI toolkit since at least 2.x days. It's used for IDLE, the IDE shipped with Python, and is also used for the turtle module's graphics.

avhon1|6 months ago

Not written in, but AutoCAD supports scripting in TCL (and in its own AutoLisp, which is much less popular among users than TCL).

progre|6 months ago

First version of Redis was written in Tcl.

dmux|6 months ago

A large part of flightaware.com’s systems were written in TCL.