Tcl/Tk

“You could bang out a few lines of Tcl in your editor and have a working GUI.”

“Tcl was doing automatic widget layout back when VB was using absolute "dialog units" for everything”

“The bit I really like about Tcl is how easy it makes asynchronous I/O across all its supported platforms.”

“TCL filled the role that the Javascript swamp filled. I think that's a better timeline from a tech perspective.”

“One can create amazing ergonomic scripting APIs in TCL; I've done that.”

“If you write Tcl/Tk from scratch for an application and architect it well, it's great.”

“The biggest early selling point of Tcl was Tk, as a relatively easy way to make good-enough GUI programs”

“for little visualizations its just fine, certainly not AAA”

“everyone I know (myself included) absolutely hate working with it in VLSI CAD tools”

“Tcl allowed the first working concept to come to life in a few days.”

“it is able to write Tcl/tk applications for you that you might not have done at that level in the past”

“gold standard of stability, pragmatism, and lightweight cross-platform development”

“was really magic for creating user interfaces for small applications”

“it feels very outdated compared to the reactive type of GUI's we have today”

“Some of these UIs look simpler and better / more user friendly to me than the latest offerings from Apple and Microsoft.”

“Working this way also has the nice side effect of making the application UI agnostic.”

“I take issue with the only 100 MB footprint, that is still pretty big”

“I love that I can just spin up a cross-platform tool immediately with it”

“I learned things (like wish) which can be leveraged via LLMs to produce the output artefact faster and more reliably.”

“Tk worked so well precisely because a real scripting language was part of its design from day one”

“replace all your apps with some horrible Tcl/Tk and .NET interface”

“Tk (no browser component, no drag'n'drop, at least from Tkinter)”

“It's amazing how far Tcl/Tk has come since I had to use it as a wrapper around an X11 window”

“pretty portable (should mostly work on every platform with minor changes)”

“It will crawl against pure Win32/XLib under a Pentium 90 if everything it's a TK window”

“Now I wish it had won instead of the unholy abomination we have with Electron apps.”

“you can develop your own software with it, and that with the source of everything included”

“Which had the ugliness problem then, although it is a lot better now.”

“UI was so bloody ugly it was embarassing to show to any other user”

“for writing a simple app with a GUI, I'd suggest that Tcl/Tk is hard to beat”

“Super easy to use, fast, almost zero ram usage and battle tested for 2 decades.”

“Tk's GUI object model is sitting at a reasonable maxima between trivial to make use of vs. triggering the events necessary”

“Being able to plot a histogram of data collected from the FPGA or make clickable buttons to trigger events is very useful.”

“the whole point of Tcl/Tk is to allow easy creation of small little tools and apps”

“fully cross-platform and (as of Tcl 9.0) has basic screen-reader support”

“it is extremely introspective with the ability to modify the language from within itself”

“the TCL/Tk dependencies will straightly run on both XP, Mac, BSD and GNU/Linux with no propietary chains ever”

“it was the quickest and multiplatform example to do a RAD application”

“TCL and Tk improved a little on speed and it almost looks native on tons of software”

“The send command in Tk is lel, but can easily be effectively closed by rebinding it to a no-op.”