This post is something i was looking for a while. The state of the art of GUI programming with Perl was a problem that come to my mind many times in these years.
When i have to choose a Perl tool to do something complex or maintainable over years everytime i have a dread: will these libs maintained over time? or i' ll find myself to be forced to migrate to another lib in x years? Dread becomes greater as x becomes smaller...
Whilst i feel comfortable with my choose of DBI or CGI this was not the situation respect GUI programming: Gtk and Wx were appetissable for shiny new effects.. but at which cost?

So, me too, i choosed poor old Tk as object of study because stability is a must.
So zentara, i join your praise for old poor Tk and, if i can add, i pray for a new vigor to Tk::Zink too.

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