> If you think TK is moving just fine, you are both right and completely wrong.> What it has is fine, what has been added is fine, the movement, not so fine.> TK has enough there to be *the* toolkit that everyone wants to use. For a> long time it was the toolkit. Now? Not so much. It's still better but people> have moved on. I'd like to bring them back. I'd like to see 20-something> hackers groovin on TK. If you look around, we're all old dudes. My next> birthday is 50 and I'm young compared to most of the core team and most of> the people doing stuff with tcl/tk.>> I challenge you to find a team of 20-somethings that want to use tcl/tk.
Well, the 20-something hackers I know are writing in Objective-C,
pursuing careers as indie Cocoa/Mac/iOS developers. Tcl/Tk doesn't show
up on their radar, but then again nothing developed outside of Cupertino
shows up on their radar.
Is this a problem for Tcl/Tk? I'm not sure it is, and I'm not sure I
care. I took up Tcl/Tk development in my 30's, and I'm 42 now. I'm not
a computer scientist by training (my Ph.D. is in English), but I still
think I count as (relatively) new blood.
>> My argument is not about stagnation, it is about new developers. If you> aren't growing you are dieing. By that metric, tcl is dieing.
By that metric Tcl has been dying since about 2000 or so, but it's still
here.
--Kevin
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