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Solving Tech Debt With Tcl

Technical debt is becoming an increasingly intractable problem for many organizations. Businesses that grew up fast because the only way…

ActiveState is excited to announce that the Tcl Dev Kit (TDK) is now open source! This critical piece of software…

ActiveState is super excited to announce we’re open sourcing TEAcup/TEApot: one of Tcl’s key community package repository systems. Until now,…

Package management is a significant issue in every programming language and the number of packages associated with each language is…

UPDATE Apr 13, 2017: ActiveTcl 8.6.6 is now available on macOS. UPDATE Feb 7, 2017: ActiveTcl 8.6.6 is now available…

It’s my favourite blog of the year – where I list the articles I found the most memorable, interesting, and…

For a long time, Tcl was referred to as Unix’s best kept secret. It hides inside products from Cisco routers…

I don’t like threads. They are brittle and dangerous… Even when the languages being used have good thread support (Java…

This summer, we sent out a survey to all our ActiveTcl downloaders and customers. We wanted to gain some insights…

We’re all familiar with Tcl on the small scale, embedded into products as a way to make them field-programmable, for testing software…

Millions of developers around the world use Tcl for rapid prototyping, scripted applications, GUIs, and testing. It’s everywhere around us…

The Oscars celebrate Best Supporting Actor and Actress each year. But programming languages that play a supporting role generally get…