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I haven't tested this recently, but I bet it’s equally capable of writing custom Tcl extensions using the C API. Given how stable and clean the Tcl C interface has always been, it’s probably a perfect use case for LLM generation.

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Yeah should work. So that makes it possible to do literally anything. Tcl always had one foot in the old days and one foot in the modern era. It's not like ALGOL or anything.

> It's not like ALGOL or anything.

It's a Lisp with syntax sugar and no macros.

Lisp a la Unix way.

There's no macros because there's uplevel (and upvar) instead. It's a different way to do homoiconicity. And the variable binding rules are quite different, which makes for quite a different language in practice.

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