alt Hacker NewsTkinter[0] was apparently released in 1994, so mildly interesting he didn't say "Tcl tends to get ported to weird places like other programming languages."
Tkinter[0] was apparently released in 1994, so mildly interesting he didn't say "Tcl tends to get ported to weird places like other programming languages."
It's not really ported. tkinter just builds a full Tcl interpreter as a Python extension and passes command strings over to it. This is the use case Tcl was designed for. You can get access to the underlying Tcl instance and issue non-Tk commands.