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I am pulling a leg here a bit. I could risk a statement that Tcl could be an alternative when all you want is a simple CRUD backend. Now performance considerations are valid, but in some applications Tcl could be fast enough. Both languages, or maybe we could say platforms, have manged runtimes and maybe that's were similarities end.

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Tcl is good for both CRUD and REST; for example, the sqlite.org web site uses a pure Tcl web server, through which you can access sqlite's SCM app which is backed by a SQLite database.

I was under the impression that the sqlite.org website used Dr. Richard Hipp's "althttpd" (written in C): https://sqlite.org/althttpd/doc/trunk/althttpd.md

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