Wacl: Tcl distro customized for WebAssembly

Re:Wacl: Tcl distro customized for WebAssembly by tyingq on Saturday April 29, 2017 @08:24PM (#14229556)

All fair, but you have to take the time period in context. There wasn't the plethora of choice we have today.

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Re:Wacl: Tcl distro customized for WebAssembly by jancsika on Sunday April 30, 2017 @03:54PM (#14233497)

It's the "reasonably complete" phrase that I'm responding to.

For example: Qt was released around the same time. Do you know if the first version included QGraphicsView? Because it has features we still associate with a modern 2d graphics API-- affine transforms, opacity, grouping of primitives, arbitrarily complex paths, and decent performance even with event handlers and many items being animated on the canvas.

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Re:Wacl: Tcl distro customized for WebAssembly by tyingq on Monday May 01, 2017 @01:49PM (#14239783)

Yes, qt is a better toolkit. But it wasn't embedded in a cross platform scripting language at the time.

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Re:Wacl: Tcl distro customized for WebAssembly by jancsika on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @10:03AM (#14255690)

And that was quite obviously a reason many developers chose tcl/tk at the time, in spite of tk not being a "reasonably complete" GUI toolkit.

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