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This immediately makes me think of TCL/Tk, back in the days where that was the lowest barrier to entry to get a basic X11 GUI app up.
by hakfoo 2y ago
This immediately makes me think of TCL/Tk, back in the days where that was the lowest barrier to entry to get a basic X11 GUI app up.
- 7thaccount 2y agoTCL itself is very similar to PS in being a command based language, but it's a little weirder in some ways. It's nice and lightweight, but doesn't work with Windows as natively as PS, although I bet there are some COM or other libraries that can get you close. The TK GUI is indeed lightweight, but a bit antiquated. I was thinking of something closer to Rebol, but maybe with a GUI builder as building a GUI with just Rebol syntax (although crazy powerful - Tetris is less than a page of code in Rebol) is a little challenging. The main thing though is neither TCL or PS or Rebol covers everything I think is needed in a modern business analyst programming language. You need a simple dynamic language, ease of sharing programs, reasonable performance, really good OS interop, ease of building GUI, and a very large ecosystem of tools. Python is by far the closest here and is the programming language of choice for those in this segment for a good reason.