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Does anyone know how and/or who is behind Tk? It is in my opinion the best open-source cross-platform gui toolkit, but it seems like both of these are true:

1. Hardly anybody uses it

2. It keeps getting steady updates and improvements

So what am I missing?

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In addition to the Core Team, D. Richard Hipp ( sqlite3, fossil-scm ) is a pretty avid user, contributes to tcl and writes apps that use TCL (wapp is one, sqlite3 has easy hooks to TCL).

TCL isn't widely popular but has a strong core team and just enough interest to drive development.

It may be just my bubble, but I see TCL still being used, but I don't remember the last time I saw someone use a Tk application that wasn't written by me (and it's been a while since I wrote any Tk for that matter).

Well, I still use tkcon and tkdesk quite a bit, so I wouldn't comment on the popularity. I am a bit biased and generally don't use fancy graphical stuff. But I do follow the Tcl/Tk lists and newsgroups and there are quite a few people doing Tk stuff based on the discussion there.

* Okay, I just mentioned fancy graphical stuff and newsgroups. I feel old. I need a nap.

Well, searching for a tkdesk screenshot, I found https://www.linuxjournal.com/files/linuxjournal.com/linuxjou... which really takes me back...

I typically like to use cwm and instead of modifying it to bring up dmenu or the like, I use TkDesk.

Is the 2.0 release on sourceforge the definitive version of TkDesk still?

I use girl all the time, it has all the features I need (and something more).

There is a gifted group of developers at the core.

https://www.tcl.tk/community/coreteam/

Nevertheless, new development and functionalities are tracked as proposals in the TIP page, an example of how to maintain an open source project.

https://core.tcl-lang.org/tips/doc/trunk/index.md

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