top | item 45082465 (no title) 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. discuss order hn newest lproven|6 months ago Version 9 came out last year. I wrote about it.https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/02/tcltk_version_9/27 years after v8.0 which may be some kind of record. 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. load replies (1) 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. load replies (2) 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. load replies (1) fuzztester|6 months ago I've read many times in the past that a lot of EDA-related software is written in Tcl and Tk.Electronic Design Automation.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_design_automationSee:https://www.tcl-lang.org/about/uses.htmlThe section about Embedded Development.CAD is mentioned there too.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided_design load replies (2) 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). Qem|6 months ago https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRL-CAD progre|6 months ago First version of Redis was written in Tcl. AdieuToLogic|6 months ago > Can you name an important software written in Tcl or Tk?MacPorts[0] uses Tcl significantly.EDIT:The expect[1] command also uses Tcl and has a variant which uses Tk.0 - https://github.com/macports/macports-ports1 - https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=expect&apropos=0&s... dmux|6 months ago A large part of flightaware.com’s systems were written in TCL.
lproven|6 months ago Version 9 came out last year. I wrote about it.https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/02/tcltk_version_9/27 years after v8.0 which may be some kind of record.
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. load replies (1) 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. load replies (2) 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. load replies (1) fuzztester|6 months ago I've read many times in the past that a lot of EDA-related software is written in Tcl and Tk.Electronic Design Automation.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_design_automationSee:https://www.tcl-lang.org/about/uses.htmlThe section about Embedded Development.CAD is mentioned there too.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided_design load replies (2) 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). Qem|6 months ago https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRL-CAD progre|6 months ago First version of Redis was written in Tcl. AdieuToLogic|6 months ago > Can you name an important software written in Tcl or Tk?MacPorts[0] uses Tcl significantly.EDIT:The expect[1] command also uses Tcl and has a variant which uses Tk.0 - https://github.com/macports/macports-ports1 - https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=expect&apropos=0&s... dmux|6 months ago A large part of flightaware.com’s systems were written in TCL.
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. load replies (1)
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. load replies (2)
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. load replies (1)
fuzztester|6 months ago I've read many times in the past that a lot of EDA-related software is written in Tcl and Tk.Electronic Design Automation.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_design_automationSee:https://www.tcl-lang.org/about/uses.htmlThe section about Embedded Development.CAD is mentioned there too.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided_design load replies (2)
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).
AdieuToLogic|6 months ago > Can you name an important software written in Tcl or Tk?MacPorts[0] uses Tcl significantly.EDIT:The expect[1] command also uses Tcl and has a variant which uses Tk.0 - https://github.com/macports/macports-ports1 - https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=expect&apropos=0&s...
lproven|6 months ago
https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/02/tcltk_version_9/
27 years after v8.0 which may be some kind of record.
hollerith|6 months ago
Important softwares written in Ruby for example include Rails and Homebrew.
coliveira|6 months ago
doublerabbit|6 months ago
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
nilamo|6 months ago
fuzztester|6 months ago
Electronic Design Automation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_design_automation
See:
https://www.tcl-lang.org/about/uses.html
The section about Embedded Development.
CAD is mentioned there too.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided_design
avhon1|6 months ago
Qem|6 months ago
progre|6 months ago
AdieuToLogic|6 months ago
MacPorts[0] uses Tcl significantly.
EDIT:
The expect[1] command also uses Tcl and has a variant which uses Tk.
0 - https://github.com/macports/macports-ports
1 - https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=expect&apropos=0&s...
dmux|6 months ago