Why “TK” is being discussed
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> The biggest reason to use Tcl even to this day is to write Tk GUI programs. Well... Tcl on its own is good as a configuration language, creating DSLs, or as a scripting/e…
by bch · Sep 30, 2026
Not the OP but Tcl comes with batteries included and more "full fledged". Lua is just so much more lightweight and so easy to just drop it in any codebase. The biggest reason to…
by rwbt · Sep 30, 2026
I tried to get into tk via ruby-tk. I ended up really disliking tk. Using ruby-gtk2 and ruby-gtk3 was much nicer. (Sadly, gtk4 sucks, so that's the end of the story there.) I ki…
by shevy-java · Sep 29, 2026
All of which I used many years to go to write "Snit", a quite nice object system for coding up Tcl objects and Tk widgets. Snit's a TCL library that takes a nice, easily readabl…
by wduquette · Sep 29, 2026
I've done animations at the Tcl layer before with composition of Tk objects. for little visualizations its just fine, certainly not AAA
by convolvatron · Sep 29, 2026
Perl/Tk is a hard fork and hasn't fully integrated the improvements in Tk over the last couple decades.
by kevin_thibedeau · Sep 29, 2026
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