I will hazard a guess that many HNers know Jim's author through another pretty piece of software he wrote: Redis. It feels a little odd that Jim is not the scri

I will hazard a guess that many HNers know Jim's author through another pretty piece of software he wrote: Redis. It feels a little odd that Jim is not the scripting language of Redis. There has been some talk that Tcl 9.0 will build on top of Jim or on top of ideas from Jim. I don't know what current status of that is.