alt Hacker NewsThey did have a recent language update after awhile. That may have triggered some folks to look into it again. There is sometimes a HN effect where an initial post triggers some interest amongst enough users to get us new posts for a few weeks and then things tend to die off again. I've seen this with a lot of the more obscure languages like APL.
It would be cool to have a Tcl revival though (although I don't see it happening - I'm not in the community though so hopefully someone more informed can post). The language itself seems more capable than most give it credit for. I'm more of a Python fan myself, but can appreciate Tcl after reading through a book on it and writing a few scripts.
I highly recommend The Tcl Programming Language: A Comprehensive Guide:
https://www.magicsplat.com/ttpl/index.html
For those who are not aware, Tcl is actually part of standard Python distribution through TKinter.
There are many things Tcl has built in that are quite amazing, like a robust virtual filesystem support, reflective channels, and less known these days Starpacks (stand alone runtime) that bundle sources with the binary.
I am current working on bringing back kitcreator for an AI project that uses Tcl as a scripting environment over llama.cpp.
https://github.com/tclmonster/kitcreator
Roy Keene is the original author, and has done some really clever stuff here, like encrypting the VFS appended to the executable. I added compression to this. It provides some manner of obfuscating sources.
And actually, I am also working on using tohil to compile a static Python and load it as a Tcl extension, with the goal to have standalone Python applications bundled with their sources and completely loadable from within the VFS. This will provide a means to bundle TKinter with a “frozen” Python app.
https://github.com/tclmonster/tohil