It seems to me that following some rather unfortunate events, Perl/Tk is left unmaintained, and is slowly drifting away from our daily life. ActivePerl already got rid of it, suggesting Tkx instead. But IMHO Tkx is just as good as Gtk, or Qt -- in the sense that it's just another very thin layer over something built for a completely different programming language, and in order to use it, you have to have the guts to study the original documentation and to figure out how to do it in Perl, guessing and inventing tricks in the process. Perl/Tk, on the other hand was so much more: it was Perlish in its true sense, with a ton of documentation (and books), examples and auxiliary modules; its amount of code/performance ratio was excellent! So, with all this, what's going to happen to Perl/Tk? Are we going to just abandon it?

In reply to Is there any hope for Perl/Tk ? by pht

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