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I’m starting to feel like Tommy Lee Jones in No Country for Old Men.

Honestly this is why I use emacs. Editors like VS Code even, while have some conveniences built in, update every five minutes it seems.

My workflow is somewhat Byzantine—mostly just use shells and basic tools like find and grep do most of what IDEs do (sure somewhat worse).

That and I copy and and paste from my favorite AI chat and that’s it. Paste a code block, or an entire file for context.

Like taking notes with a pencil and paper—which helps information uptake—I believe it’s actually important to slow down and take a moment to think.

Definitely would be interesting to use it in that way! The nice thing about Tcl is the syntax is clean (in brevity and understanding). Basic features like piping, file globbing, encoding conversions, compression, and so-forth are intuitive.

If you’re interested, I have various Tclkits available for download on GitHub. I have added dependencies to them like TLS for HTTPS and so-forth. It can be convenient to have them standalone; the TLS extension here is bundled with the ca certs from libcurl.

https://github.com/tclmonster/kitcreator/releases/latest

And here’s an example how I use the kits in the CI build. It uses the kit it builds to push the update using the TLS extension along with the GitHub REST API:

https://github.com/tclmonster/kitcreator/blob/main/.github/s...

I highly recommend The Tcl Programming Language: A Comprehensive Guide:

https://www.magicsplat.com/ttpl/index.html

For those who are not aware, Tcl is actually part of standard Python distribution through TKinter.

There are many things Tcl has built in that are quite amazing, like a robust virtual filesystem support, reflective channels, and less known these days Starpacks (stand alone runtime) that bundle sources with the binary.

I am current working on bringing back kitcreator for an AI project that uses Tcl as a scripting environment over llama.cpp.

https://github.com/tclmonster/kitcreator

Roy Keene is the original author, and has done some really clever stuff here, like encrypting the VFS appended to the executable. I added compression to this. It provides some manner of obfuscating sources.

And actually, I am also working on using tohil to compile a static Python and load it as a Tcl extension, with the goal to have standalone Python applications bundled with their sources and completely loadable from within the VFS. This will provide a means to bundle TKinter with a “frozen” Python app.

https://github.com/tclmonster/tohil