Steadily converting my Bash skills to Tcl.

[deech@mastodon.social]

Steadily converting my Bash skills to Tcl.

Downsides so far: low adoption, some awkward quoting rules and process redirection.

Upsides: everything else.

[deech@mastodon.social]

This language is overlooked and "secret weapon"y enough that it could be a good conf talk.

[joe@f.duriansoftware.com]

@deech can we bring back Tk as a UI toolkit while you’re at it

[deech@mastodon.social]

@joe unironically, yeah! Now it has theming, a11y screen reader support and single file executable deployment.

[t0yv0@vmst.io]

@deech it powers Magic and Cadence solvers. Over-represented in Electrical Engineering apparently.