But in the arena of large scale GUI apps, ...

Some years ago I also discovered that perl/Tk isn't suitable for large scale GUI apps, because its syntax too verbose and immediately after some widgets are packed, I have a forest of unmaintainable code.

Things went more smoothly after I started creating apps a bit differently, namely I used to separate GUI and logic, and write GUI with pure Tcl/Tk, after that use Tcl::Tk CPAN module to connect GUI to Perl.

This approach required some learning of Tcl/Tk, so took some efforts.
But I never regret that, and the only regret I have is why I did not moved to Tcl::Tk earlier.

While Tcl is a very different beastie compared to Perl, and may be not suitable for many tasks where Perl is the right choice, Tcl/Tk is very suitable for GUI, much more than perl/Tk do.

In reply to Re^2: Perl Tk - propagating events by vkon
in thread Perl Tk - propagating events by TGI

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