While the Things holding Tcl back may raise valid points, this page was created to make sure the optimistic side of things is not left behind.
Tcl has been progressing over the years for several reasons:
- an enthusiastic community [L1 ]
- friendly discussion and help on comp.lang.tcl
- many (?) people working on the Tcl/Tk core
- active technical discussions on the chat [L2 ]
- a wiki with lots and lots of gems
- a license which supports sharing and reuse
- copy on write, everything is a string, file events
- Tk, Expect, and more
- an implementation which has established a record through the years as a model of high-quality coding
- a very clever, subtle initial design, perhaps as important for what it left out as what it put in.