ActiveState today announced the release of Tcl Dev Kit 3.0. The solution includes new features for the rapid development and delivery of professional quality Tcl applications, and sets a new bar for developer productivity and performance for in-depth code analysis, management, debugging, and deployment.
Tcl Dev Kit 3.0 Released
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Who’s using Tcl/Tk anymore? This is not a troll, but a serious question for anybody to come forward. I haven’t come across a single developer that’s using this (and I know a lot), and can’t even think of a decent Tcl/Tk app.
Hi Joe,
Well … I use to be a Tcl/Tk developer back in 95-99 and I was, at that time, involve in projects related to Astronomy (instrumentation) …
We were using Tcl/Tk mainly because Tk is great for creating user interface, easily and quickly. We were using it to write
GUI for instrument control and data processing.
I know the project I was working on is still alive and that the people I worked with still maintain and improve the Tcl/Tk code.
Also, Tcl/Tk have a very smooth learning curve, easy for astronomers to learn and use.
Cheers,
jean-louis
I just wanted to add, that back in 1995 the only GUI kit
available on UNIX were (AFAIK):
– X11 lib
– Motif
– Tk
And Tk was from far the best of the 3 (and free). The basic
X11 lib was really a major pain to develop GUI with, and
motif … well … don’t get me started with Motif .. 😉
Cheers,
Jean-Louis
PS : Please don’t flame me about my comments on Motif & X lib
An example of a decent application still using tcl/tk? Try ModelSim by Mentor Graphics, maybe the standard, and in my opinion the best, environment for vhdl/verilog development.
And this isn’t the onlt EDA software still written and scriptable in tcl/tk. Indeed tcl/tk was primarly developed for this kind of applications.
Amsn uses Tcl/Tk too. Maybe it doesn’t look very well
but it works
Mostly because one of the first SNMP management tools was written in tcl/tk (scotty) . It’s still available I think.