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Official repository of Jim Tcl, an open-source, small footprint implementation of Tcl

13 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 1 story, 12 comments · first 2012-06-16 · latest 2026-02-16

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  1. https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl/blob/master/README#L144
    comment by vanni · 2026-02-16 · in Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code
  2. …JimTCL, a tiny TCL with bundled TLS, JSON, Sqlite3 and, optionally, some SDL2 support: https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl https://jim.tcl-lang.org/home/doc/www/www/index.html You can compile JimTCL with MinC under XP, and maybe T3X0 too.…
    comment by anthk · 2025-11-18 · in Unofficial "Tier 4" Rust Target for older Windows versions
  3. TCL and Expect would shine there. Even JimTCL could do it once built against WIndows XP with Min-C: https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl https://minc.commandlinerevolution.nl/english/home.html
    comment by anthk · 2025-11-05 · in Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else?
  4. …an alternative approach using C via critcl. It was interesting to see how malleable tcl can be. [1] https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl [2] https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/speed+up+clock+format+and+clo...
    comment by bb01100100 · 2025-08-03 · in Critcl – C Runtime in Tcl
  5. …and reactive DB parallelizable rn, so I've been tinkering with how to reduce copying). [1] https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl [2] https://folk.computer/
    comment by smj-edison · 2025-04-04 · in The Tcl Programming Language
  6. …structures that straddle the line between code and data: object "player" { health 100 ammo 10 } https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl
    comment by restore24 · 2024-07-27 · in Ask HN: Thoughts on Tcl as a Language in 2024?
  7. …specially for embedded devices. No TK, tho, but you have SDL2 support. And network/TLS support too. https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl
    comment by anthk · 2023-02-11 · in A brief interview with Tcl creator John Ousterhout
  8. It happened to me as well, and that was the result: https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl Libraries written for Jim Tcl became the foundation of Redis.
    comment by antirez · 2022-12-13 · in Picol, a Tcl interpreter in 550 lines of C code
  9. …If you look at the examples, you'll find that writing a Chip8 emulator with JimTCL it's a breeze. https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl
    comment by anthk · 2022-01-12 · in Writing a Game Boy Emulator in OCaml
  10. …Jim's OO system, which is implemented in pure Tcl. [1] "Objects" in the sense of Jim_Obj (Tcl_Obj). https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl/blob/da293a1eef2ddd709f10b... [2] http://jim.tcl.tk/fossil/doc/trunk/Tcl_shipped.html#_garbage...
    comment by networked · 2020-07-20 · in What's New in Lua 5.4
  11. …dates from 2009, Jim Tcl is actively maintained. You'll find the official GitHub mirror at https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl . Edit: If this subthread got you interested, antirez's other Tcl projects are worth checking out. They are listed…
    comment by networked · 2016-10-08 · in Eagle: Tcl interpreter implemented in CLR
  12. …anonymous functions): http://jim.tcl.tk/index.html/doc/www/www/index.html (source code is here: https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl ) Now maintained by Steve Bennett, and actively used by some embedded folks.
    comment by antirez · 2012-06-16 · in I can’t believe I’m praising Tcl