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Tcl has been a staple on Mac for over 30 years at this point, since System 7 at least. It was installed in Mac OS X as standard, not sure if it still is these d

Tcl has been a staple on Mac for over 30 years at this point, since System 7 at least. It was installed in Mac OS X as standard, not sure if it still is these days. I use it to wrangle text directory listings from old Macintosh CD-ROMs from pre-Unicode era. The character set support and conversion code seems to have been written by Apple themselves in the mid-1990s. https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2022/03/31/working-with-classic-macintosh-text-encodings-in-the-age-of-unicode/ https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2022/03/31/working-with-clas... I was pleasantly surprised by the syntax and capability of Tcl as well as the fact that it's still being developed and supported and that the maintainers took my feature requests and bug reports seriously and actioned them in what I consider a short time.

breck 2y ago
> It was installed in Mac OS X as standard, not sure if it still is these days. It is! Just type "tclsh"
- brnt 2y ago
  However, the Tk install that Macos ships with is so broken there's even a warning about it on the Tcl website (or was it the Python website, in case you try to use Tkinter on system Python). Invisible text, invisible buttons, Apple's got you covered....
- msephton 2y ago
  Interesting, I am using a self-installed version for ...reasons.
  - breck 2y ago
    Would love to read more. Also: > This site is powered by Jekyll (but, I absolutely definitely do not recommend it) Can I recommend Scroll to you (https://scroll.pub/ https://scroll.pub/). It's not good yet, but should be great in 3 - 6 months. P.S. Loving your blog
    - msephton 2y ago
      Thanks! I've tamed Jekyll enough now that I don't mind it (but still wouldn't recommend it). Rebuilding my theme would be a boring job so I'm not keen to migrate.