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Seems unlikely, IMO. I tried Tcl/Tk and wanted to like it, but it's all over the place. Half the docs you find are outdated, and figuring out how certain pieces

Seems unlikely, IMO. I tried Tcl/Tk and wanted to like it, but it's all over the place. Half the docs you find are outdated, and figuring out how certain pieces connect together is a bit like walking through a maze. Worse yet, a lot of the tools aren't open source or freely available, even for tinkering. I'll happily pay for a license if I end up using it for business, but I'm not going to pay hundreds of dollars up front just to play around with a niche language. There's lots of great languages out there which include completely free and open source tools. Maybe I'm spoiled.

andrewshadura 9y ago
What you’re saying it quite the opposite to what it actually is. All docs are in one place (well, two places both hosted at tcl.tk), one of them is the actual docs (also installed as manpages on your system), and the other one is the wiki, a huge source of useful information written by both developers and other users. I can't think of how Tcl/Tk docs can be massively outdated given that Tcl/Tk maintains almost 100% backwards compatibility, so most of the old advice works just as is. Regarding open source, nearly all tools are not only open source, but usually under very permissive licenses (e.g. Expat or BSD-2), and there are in fact very few commercial closed-source tools (basically Komodo, what else?). Are you sure you actually tried Tcl/Tk and not something else?