A brief interview with Tcl creator John Ousterhout

1. tcl

   1 11 - -

2. SaaSHub

   www.saashub.com featured

   SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

   

3. tk

   2 5 - -

4. windows-rs

   3 99 10,908 9.4 Rust

   Rust for Windows

   

5. cppwin32

   4 15 395 5.5 C++

   Discontinued A modern C++ projection for the Win32 SDK

   

   An official work in progress Windows binding, still far behind of what C# existing bindings are capable of, or legacy toolkits like MFC.

   Also given how the team has managed C++/CX transition to C++/WinRT with lesser tooling stuck on C++17, dropped Modern C++ bindings [0][1], before going into other shinny thing, I wonder how long they will keep at it.

   [0] - https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2021/01/21/making...

   [1] - https://github.com/microsoft/cppwin32

6. zigwin32

   5 3 283 7.3 Zig

   Zig bindings for Win32 generated by https://github.com/marlersoft/zigwin32gen

   

   It doesn't matter if the project driven by Microsoft or not, the cat (of automatically generated language bindings) is out of the bag. E.g. Zig is using the same approach without being an official MS project: https://github.com/marlersoft/zigwin32, and Apple has an automatically generated C++ API for Metal (https://developer.apple.com/metal/cpp/).

   In the future, the question won't be "what language do I need to learn to code on this platform", but instead "are there language bindings for my favourite language".

7. metal-cpp

   6 16 288 3.3 C++

   Metal-cpp is a low-overhead C++ interface for Metal that helps developers add Metal functionality to graphics apps, games, and game engines that are written in C++.

   It doesn't matter if the project driven by Microsoft or not, the cat (of automatically generated language bindings) is out of the bag. E.g. Zig is using the same approach without being an official MS project: https://github.com/marlersoft/zigwin32, and Apple has an automatically generated C++ API for Metal (https://developer.apple.com/metal/cpp/).

   In the future, the question won't be "what language do I need to learn to code on this platform", but instead "are there language bindings for my favourite language".

8. jimtcl

   7 3 450 7.5 C

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

   JimTCL it's fun too, specially for embedded devices. No TK, tho, but you have SDL2 support. And network/TLS support too.

   https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl

9. pure-data

   8 8 1,632 9.6 C

   Pure Data - a free real-time computer music system

   

   You might be interested in clicking through the puredata source code.

   https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data

10. pldb

    9 70 747 9.8 JavaScript

    PLDB: a Programming Language DataBase

    Good Catch!

    Updated here: https://github.com/breck7/pldb/commit/312d5dab32fda3782e8466...

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