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Author is right. Right or wrong Tk' least common denominator old ass, crusty, motif look kept me away. Little I saw back then, 90's, "advertised" any use of t
by njharman 15y ago
Author is right. Right or wrong Tk' least common denominator old ass, crusty, motif look kept me away. Little I saw back then, 90's, "advertised" any use of tcl outside ok Tk. In fact it was almost always called tcl/Tk.
Languages need mindshare and to get mindshare you need marketing and tcl suck[ed|s] at marketing. Unlike python, ruby, lua.
- dasil003 15y agoIs it really that much worse than Lua's marketing? I figured Lua just took off because it's niche is much more clear cut and there's less competition.
- davidw 15y agoI'm talking about marketing more in the sense of "finding out what people are doing with your stuff, and moving your product in a direction that helps them" than "SELL! SELL! SELL!", which you really can't do with open source in any case. The embedded vs batteries included example is a pretty good example of that: Tcl is neither small and limited/self-contained like Lua, nor does it ship with a bunch of stuff out of the box. So it satisfies no one.