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I’m surprised at how often Tcl makes it to the HN front page even it is not supposed to be a popular language. Even more surprised it is for relatively obscure
by ridruejo 5y ago
I’m surprised at how often Tcl makes it to the HN front page even it is not supposed to be a popular language. Even more surprised it is for relatively obscure topics.
- rkeene2 5y agoTcl tends to get used in weird places, and is stable so has a high sticky-ness.
- ppereira 5y agoMany tools used in chip design are controlled with Tcl. It provides a stable repl for these heavy, multi-threaded, efficient, C++ programs.
- smartmic 5y agoI find it much more exciting to make such discoveries with old, stable languages than to follow the latest developments of hip languages. Much of what is invented or rewritten there again and again has been running with proven tools for decades. However, this is often only known to older graybeards who still use stable industrial code without wider open source visibility.