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C.S.Lewis, Prince Caspian. I'll skip the commentary to avoid spoiling the magic for anyone who hasn't read it yet.

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.

Congrats to the community and the core team. Their dedication to maintaining Tcl/Tk as a gold standard of stability, pragmatism, and lightweight cross-platform development is inspiring.

I hear you, though I’m less focused on the choice of UI libraries and more on how little control we have over how prompts are routed internally.

Sometimes I want a model that reasons deeply, other times I want one that is more creative. Right now, it feels like gpt-5 forces everything through the same pipeline, even when a different mode would be better suited to the task.

For web app generation, gpt-5 seems to route my prompt to the reasoning model. Interestingly, gpt-4.1 often produced more creative or aesthetically interesting designs. In some cases, a bit of controlled hallucination (via temperature) is actually desirable, especially when generating UI ideas. Anyone else seeing this tradeoff?

> 2. Python, though great, has a global interpreter lock. TCL fits in with threaded programs excellently. This can be a make-or-break feature.

Tcl's threading and event management are indeed standout features. It excels in threaded programs, thanks to its robust C API, especially functions like Tcl_ThreadQueueEvent ( https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl9.0/TclLib/Notifier.html ).

It's worth noting that we're in 2024, not 1994. While it's true that writing extensions for Tcl is necessary for richer data structures, it's definitely not an impossible task. As a mediocre programmer myself, I've managed to write 15 extensions in the past year. I love Tcl and find its C API to be exceptionally well-written and user-friendly.

I would like to point out that the Tcl C API is exceptionally well-written and provides a robust low-level interface that many developers appreciate. For those interested, you can find the documentation here: https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl9.0/TclLib/index.html