Top 15 Tcl Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Tcl (originally from "Tool Command Language", but conventionally rendered as "Tcl" rather than "TCL"; pronounced as "tickle" or "tee-see-ell") is a scripting language created by John Ousterhout.Originally "born out of frustration", according to the author, with programmers devising their own languages intended to be embedded into applications, Tcl gained acceptance on its own. It is commonly used for rapid prototyping, scripted applications, GUIs and testing. Tcl is used on embedded systems platforms, both in its full form and in several other small-footprint versions. ...

1. Hack

Hack Hack is a programming language for HHVM that interoperates seamlessly with PHP. Hack reconciles the fast development cycle of PHP with the discipline provided by static typing, while adding many features commonly found in other modern programming languages.Hack provides instantaneous type checking via a local server that watches the filesystem.......

2. Apple Swift

Apple Swift Swift is a programming language for iOS, OS X, watchOS and tvOS apps that builds on the best of C and Objective-C, without the constraints of C compatibility. Swift adopts safe programming patterns and adds modern features to make programming easier, more flexible, and more fun. Swift’s clean slate, backed......

3. Kotlin

Kotlin Statically typed programming language targeting the JVM and JavaScript 100% interoperable with Java™......

4. Squirrel (programming language)

Squirrel (programming language) Squirrel is a high level imperative, object-oriented programming language, designed to be a light-weight scripting language that fits in the size, memory bandwidth, and real-time requirements of applications like video games.......

5. Lua

Lua Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language.Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, runs by interpreting bytecode for a register-based virtual machine, and has automatic memory management with incremental garbage collection, making it ideal......

6. IronAHK

IronAHK IronAHK is a rewrite of AutoHotkey, a powerful and easy to use scripting language for automation on the desktopIt is developed in C# for .NET and Mono which brings cross-platform compatibility, increased performance, enhanced security, Unicode, native 64-bit support, smaller file sizes for compiled binaries and much more.......

7. REBOL

REBOL Rebol (historically REBOL) is a cross-platform data exchange language and a multi-paradigm dynamic programming language designed by Carl Sassenrath for network communications and distributed computing. It introduces the concept of dialecting: small, optimized, domain-specific languages for code and data.Douglas Crockford of JavaScript fame has described REBOL as "a more modern......

8. V8cgi

V8cgi v8cgi is a server side (FastCGI or Apache module) and client side shell/batch scripting language. It's based on Google's V8 JavaScript implementation. It's available under an Open Source BSD license. It currently runs on Windows, Linux and BSD machines with additional platforms possible. There's access to JavaScript language functionality plus......

9. TWAPI

TWAPI The Tcl Windows API (TWAPI) extension provides Tcl bindings to the Windows API. It provides, among other things, the functionality required to simulate mouse clicks, key presses, etc. for the purpose of automation.----The extension provides access to the Windows API at two levels. A direct interface to the supported Windows......

10. Tron

Tron Tron is a console application which simulates user intervention for otherwise unscriptable applications.It can simulate keystrokes, mouse clicks and movements from scripts allowing the control of applications running in the foreground. It can be used to write automated tests for user interfaces or to ease repetitive jobs with applications which......

11. CUBA.platform

CUBA.platform Unlike other full-stack frameworks available on the market, the platform offers a higher level of abstraction and a wider range of out-of-the-box features, while still allowing direct access to the low-level API.......

12. Google Scripts

Google Scripts Extend Google Apps and build web applications with this JavaScript cloud scripting language stored in Google Drive and run from Google's servers.......

13. Jim Tcl — The Jim Interpreter

Jim Tcl — The Jim Interpreter Jim is an opensource small-footprint implementation of the Tcl programming language. It implements a large subset of Tcl and adds new features like references with garbage collection, closures, built-in Object Oriented Programming system, Functional Programming commands, first-class arrays and UTF-8 support. All this with a binary size of about 100-200kB......

14. Oracle APEX

Oracle APEX Oracle Application Express (Oracle APEX) is a rapid web application development tool for the Oracle database. Using only a web browser and limited programming experience, you can develop and deploy professional applications that are both fast and secure. Oracle APEX is a fully supported, no cost option of the Oracle......

15. FastoRedis

FastoRedis What is FastoRedisFastoRedis — is a cross-platform open source Redis management tool (i.e. Admin GUI). It put the same engine that powers Redis's redis-cli shell. Everything you can write in redis-cli shell — you can write in Fastoredis! Our program works on the most amount of Linux systems, also on......