Tcl API as a replacement for glib?

2 points by zvrba 14y ago ↗ HN

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.

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jahitr 14y ago ↗

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.

scottgnet 14y ago ↗

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.