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What is Tcl?

Tcl is a simple-to-learn yet very powerful programming language. Its syntax is described in just a dozen rules, but it has all the features needed to rapidly create useful programs in almost any field of application - on a wide variety of international platforms. See more about Tcl at What is Tcl

What is Tk?

Tk is a graphical toolkit for Tcl. It allows you to develop graphical applications that run on Windows, Linux, MacOS X and many other platforms. And not just from Tcl - Tk can be used from many languages including C, Ruby, Perl, Python and Lua. See more about Tk at What is Tk

Tcl Community News

• Tcl 9.0 Released! The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the release of Tcl 9.0.0 - a new major version of Tcl. When compared with the prior release Tcl 8.6 there are many new features to be enjoyed along with some incompatibilities to be considered. Concurrently released is version 9.0 of the Tk graphical toolkit. A summary of the most noteworthy changes in both Tcl 9.0 and Tk 9.0 can be found at the Tcl Developer Xchange .

• New TCT Members - the Tcl Core Team (TCT) is pleased to announce that Rolf Ade, Ashok Nadkarni and Harald Oehlmann have been elected to membership in the TCT, following the procedure described in TIP #0 https://core.tcl-lang.org/tips/doc/trunk/tip/0.md

• The European OpenACS and TCL/Tk conference was held in Vienna/Austria/Europe on July 11 & 12 2024. The conference page is: https://openacs.org/conf2024/info/

• There is a Monthly Tcl Meetup held online. Details are available on the Monthly Virtual Meetup page.

• A virtual European Tcl Meetup is held monthly. For futher details see Monatlicher virtueller Tcl Stammtisch

• Tcl Conferences has details of past Tcl conferences

• Tcl/Tk 8.6.15 Released. The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.6.15 release of the Tcl dynamic language and the Tk toolkit. We would like to express our gratitude to all those who submit bug reports and patches. This information is invaluable in enabling us to identify and eliminate problems in the core. Tcl/Tk 8.6.15 sources are freely available as open source from the Tcl Developer Xchange .

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