Tcl/Tk in Lua

An AI image depicting a Tcl/Tk interface.

Yeah. I added it. Python uses Tk for its graphical user interfaces (GUIs), so why not Lua? I used the ltcltk library from http://www.tset.de/ltcltk/ . Tested with Tcl 8.6 on Ubuntu 22.04 . I had to update the library a little, because the way Tcl/Tk does things had changed between version 8.5 and 8.6 .

There were a lot of GUI toolkits made over the years, most of them don't work anymore because new-ish way to do things is via a web interface. There were some reasons for that, such as wanting to get paid. But, whatever. The new code will be AI assisted, and too cheap to charge for. So there is not much of a reason to lock up the code behind a server. A local GUI toolkit would make programming a lot simpler because you can eliminate the webserver and all of the peculiarities of web programming. It was all a big detour!

Expect to see this in a future release of the Lulua Lua Distro.

So, I did this and it changed my life.