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Tänzer – An industrial web server framework for Tcl

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Re: Tänzer – An industrial web server framework for Tcl

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Post by oevi »

darka wrote: post #4

How prevalent is Tcl usage in the real world? You don't hear much about it, are there any new startups adopting it? Or is it only used in legacy projects at large companies?

ProjectOpen [1] could be an example. But from my experience it is basically a legacy project used in (large) companies, because it filled a gap 15 years ago when web based PM software was still rare.

The funny thing is, that the use of Tcl is explicitly advertised as security through obscurity:

"The combination of AOLserver and the TCL programming language is not commonly found in the Internet, so a potential hacker will need to expend a considerable amount of criminal energy in order to reverse-engineer the application stack." [2].

[1] http://www.project-open.com [2] http://www.project-open.org/en/project_open_architecture

Re: Tänzer – An industrial web server framework for Tcl

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Post by xantronix »

networked wrote: post #10

tanzer.io is taking a while to respond. Here's a CoralCDN mirror: http://tanzer.io.nyud.net/ .

I was wondering why I woke up to a 500 Internal Server Error, and why I had ran out of fds. That explains it!

Having said that, I'm very keen these days on the idea of implementing usage of libevent into core Tcl 8.6, which would be a fact that tanzer itself would be entirely oblivious to.

Re: Tänzer – An industrial web server framework for Tcl

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Post by xantronix »

vahidR wrote: post #8

500 Internal Server Error The server was unable to fulfill your request. Generated by tanzer/0.1

Try again! Given that this thing is very much a work-in-progress, and I certainly wasn't ready to submit to HN (don't look at me like that! It wasn't me), I suppose one can forgive a little web framework that could of this sort of thing.

I've got lighttpd in front of the site for now until I figure out what broke. :)

Re: Tänzer – An industrial web server framework for Tcl

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Post by mst »

darka wrote: post #4

How prevalent is Tcl usage in the real world? You don't hear much about it, are there any new startups adopting it? Or is it only used in legacy projects at large companies?

It makes an amazing executable config syntax; I've been experimenting with it for that purpose since seeing how elegantly that worked for bit.ly.

Not sure if they're 'new' anymore but definitely 'startup'.

Re: Tänzer – An industrial web server framework for Tcl

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Post by jima006hn »

darka wrote: post #4

How prevalent is Tcl usage in the real world? You don't hear much about it, are there any new startups adopting it? Or is it only used in legacy projects at large companies?

Well, not only past glory... check things like Caius based on Tcl... http://caiusproject.com/
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