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Tcl

Posted Jul 11, 2013 14:51 UTC (Thu) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
Parent article: The next 20 years of Python

I continue to do interesting things in Tcl to this day. For quick desktop GUI apps, Tck/Tk is unparalleled. Anyone using git probably uses Tcl/Tk in the form of gitk and git gui

Tcl is also very widely used in the Electronic Design Automation field. It has become a niche language, but it's not dead by any means.

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Posted Jul 11, 2013 20:49 UTC (Thu) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link] (3 responses)

By no means dead, but no longer politically correct. The hip kids these days use unspeakable monstrosities like Ruby or Lua, and even like it.

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Posted Jul 12, 2013 19:00 UTC (Fri) by jonabbey (guest, #2736) [Link] (1 responses)

Hm? I thought Ruby was well thought of?

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Posted Jul 12, 2013 19:09 UTC (Fri) by justincormack (subscriber, #70439) [Link]

It is, as is Lua.

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Posted Jul 13, 2013 1:27 UTC (Sat) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link]

If Lua is a monstrosity, I don't know what you'd think of Perl.

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Posted Jul 14, 2013 15:14 UTC (Sun) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]

Anyone using git probably uses Tcl/Tk in the form of gitk and git gui

What? I just use the command line, I don't need anything else.

Most people using git are probably using github web or github for Mac. I cannot talk about everyone else, but since Debian installs gitk and git-gui separately, this graph may give you some data. Apparently gitk is installed on less than 20% of git machines, and git-gui even less.

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Posted Jul 14, 2013 22:03 UTC (Sun) by juliank (guest, #45896) [Link]

> Anyone using git probably uses Tcl/Tk in the form of gitk and git gui

I don't use gitk or git gui. I use git on the command line 99% of my time, and once or twice in a month use gitg to visualise the history.