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Having worked with both Tcl/Tk (and Perl/Tk) and Java (AWT and Swing), I find Tk is better for most jobs, because it is so simple. In fact, I am certain that a
by forinti 11y ago
Having worked with both Tcl/Tk (and Perl/Tk) and Java (AWT and Swing), I find Tk is better for most jobs, because it is so simple.
In fact, I am certain that all the desktop apps I've worked with would be much simpler to maintain and distribute were they written in Tcl/Tk.
- nickpsecurity 11y agoI agree. The simplicity of both made them a major contender for the agent-oriented programming trend that tried to happen in the 90's. If presentation and logic are separated, Tcl/Tk can be seen as a sort of DSL or 4GL for GUI development. That's how I used it. Now, there's plenty of lightweight, portable, GUI toolkits to use that I can just write a wrapper or code-generator for. Tcl/TK is less necessary than before. Still among simplest, though.