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Tcl seems to be an interesting language to learn, but I am not sure what kind of toy project I could do with it. Is there any links to modern libraries, blogs o

• ptsneves 7y ago
  There are plenty of resources but probably in book form. My first Linux book had an intro to Tcl/tk. I disagree with the op that tcl/tk is not dead. Yeah it still exists but it is rarely used and younger systems programmers/Admins never had to use it. It was a bit of a stop gap solution to create GUIs when there was rarely any. The expect functionality though it completely replaced by pexpect so it makes little sense to learn tcl/tk for such a use.
• blacksqr 7y ago
  https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Who+Uses+Tcl https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Who+Uses+Tcl
• blacksqr 7y ago
  The Tcler's wiki is a frequently-updated site with over 20 years of accumulated information and code respecting Tcl/Tk. https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/welcome https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/welcome
• _ph_ 7y ago
  Not sure what qualifies for a modern library. But you will find out that there are libraries for tcl for basically any purpose you might need. The most fameous one certainly is the tk library for creating GUIs. So doing a small gui might be a nice start, or any shell utility. The asynchroneus IO functions are great for creating small internet based servers and utilities. The most fundamental resource on tcl is probably the book by the creator, its worth a read: https://www.amazon.com/Tcl-Toolkit-2nd-John-Ousterhout/dp/032133633X https://www.amazon.com/Tcl-Toolkit-2nd-John-Ousterhout/dp/03... It not only covers the language and its usage but goes into depth of both extending tcl in C as well as embedding it into an application for scripting it.