alt Hacker NewsTcl/Tk to this day is the best tool to make GUI frontends for CLI applications. Besides that, in the past I used it in production for intranet database entry applications. It has since been replaced by Flask. In my opinion the higher complexity of the Flask version is no way justified and we should have kept the much simpler ~2k LOC Tcl/Tk solution.
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What is the best and easiest to install binary distribution?
I was looking into this for v9 and gave up on finding a binary which was:
- easily found
- agreed upon as the one to use
- available for and easy to install on all three platforms
Should I look again?
>Tcl/Tk to this day is the best tool to make GUI frontends for CLI applications.
Why? Please elaborate. I've heard others say this, but would like to know more.
>Besides that, in the past I used it in production for intranet database entry applications.
GUI apps?
In the 1990s, entire GUI applications would be written in Tcl/Tk -- not just the frontend -- the entire thing.