Tk is 25-year-old tech, not 10. ;-) It has also maintained backwards compatibility since 1997 or so, which is a nice feature to have in many cases but comes at

Tk is 25-year-old tech, not 10. ;-) It has also maintained backwards compatibility since 1997 or so, which is a nice feature to have in many cases but comes at a price. For example, you have to know to use a "ttk::button", not a plain "button", to get the native (Windows, macOS) or a least the somewhat better-looking (*nix) widget. The result is that old Tk software still runs unchanged instead of forcing its maintainers to upgrade, but it looks bad and outdated, contributing negatively to Tk's general image. The poor look on Linux is definitely a big downside. You can ameliorate it somewhat with a custom theme [1] but your GUI will still look out of place in any major desktop environment. TileGTK and TileQt [2] aren't maintained. I haven't used it myself, but Tk has at least some CJK support [3]. One thing to keep in mind from the start, though, is that Tcl/Tk suffers from a UTF-16 code unit limitation similar to Java's; it only handles the Basic Multilingual Plane [4] natively. As for antialiasing, what do you mean when you say it is disabled by default? Is that in a particular Linux distribution? A recent Tk release (post-Tcl 8.5) should render antialiased text unless you compile it with "--disable-xft" or your font is raster. [1] E.g., http://chiselapp.com/user/skoro/repository/tclapps/artifact/f94de4d27365ba49 http://chiselapp.com/user/skoro/repository/tclapps/artifact/.... [2] http://www.tclcommunityassociation.org/wub/proceedings/Proceedings-2010/GeorgePetasis/TileQtAndTileGTK.pdf http://www.tclcommunityassociation.org/wub/proceedings/Proce... [3] Per https://tcl.wiki/CJK https://tcl.wiki/CJK. [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Multilingual_Plane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Multilingual_Plane