Tcl API as a replacement for glib?

2 pointsby zvrba14 anni fa2 comments

This page lists all functions present in the Tcl 8.5 API:

http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TclLib/contents.htm

Might this be a replacement for Glib? Cross-platform unicode handling, threading, filesystem operations, virtual filesystems, hash tables, lists, channels, event-loop, regular expressions, networking, process handling, etc. As bonus you get an optional cross-platform embeddable interpreter and a portable GUI add-on (Tk).

Suddenly, I want to use this for my next project, whatever it will be.

1 comments

jahitr14 anni fa

Pro tip: TCL is dead. Start doing your next project with something like Python or Ruby. You will finish a lot sooner, acomplish a lot more, and in the process you will earn skills that are easier to sell to HR people.

scottgnet14 anni fa

Meanwhile, jahitr, your comment traversed through Cisco routers, all of which use Tcl as their core internal scripting language, to make it to hacker news. Dead indeed.