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Now will someone please implement Tk in Qt or maybe Electron...?


Haha, indeed - I also greatly prefer Tk to Qt or Electron.

Some things I love about Tk:

    - adds a cool 1990s retro aesthetic
    - usable in X11 tunneled over an SSH connection
    - doesn't consume all available CPU and memory resources
    - the Tk canvas is a beautiful thing


> or maybe Electron...?

I just physically shuddered. Tk with GDI was a work of art. Electron is... not that.


Just imagine something as light and expressive as tcl put into an electron frankenstein gave me a good chuckle :D


I always considered Electron and Qt/QML doing the inverse, just with more BCPL-ish languages.




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