Tcl/Tk 8.5.0 has been released. "The 8.5 release was a long time in development, and brought about several good enhancements to Tcl/Tk. Source releases, the exact changes and ChangeLog for each release are available in the SourceForge Tcl project's file distribution area."
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One of the apps I use and which utilizes Tcl/Tk is aMSN 
I remember having read somewhere that 8.5 is supposed to support anti-aliased font rendering which sure is a welcome addition! aMSN is a nice app but one thing that drove me almost nuts was the hideous font rendering.. :/
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expect uses tcl.
dejagnu uses expect.
autotools use dejagnu.
most opensource projects use autotools.
tcl is used in most of opensource software.
tcl is the big embeded tool language both in open source and closed source. Python is not nearly widely used as tcl! And it's mostly a replacement for perl, rarely for tcl.
Now tk is quite ugly indeed.
Edited 2007-12-21 14:11
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sK1 is one of recent ones
http://sk1project.org/modules.php?name=Products&product=sk1
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Yes, Tcl/Tk is used by several cool applications. aMSN was already noted, and Coccinella is maybe even sexier. Note that the latter will get support for this new Tcl/Tk 8.5 in next major release; which will be already in March of 2008. Source:
http://coccinella.im/coccinella-0.96.4
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2006-03-29
Wow, did not realize this was still around. Are there many projects using Tcl/Tk still? I remember when some of the old GUI interfaces were developed with this but not sure how the performance has been improved over say Python and Ruby. I did not realize they used Bytecode now.