[HN Gopher] Tcl Calling Parallel C++ Code Using OpenMP
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Tcl Calling Parallel C++ Code Using OpenMP
Author : blacksqr
Score : 78 points
Date : 2021-05-29 15:48 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| ridruejo wrote:
| I'm surprised at how often Tcl makes it to the HN front page even
| it is not supposed to be a popular language. Even more surprised
| it is for relatively obscure topics.
| smartmic wrote:
| I find it much more exciting to make such discoveries with old,
| stable languages than to follow the latest developments of hip
| languages. Much of what is invented or rewritten there again
| and again has been running with proven tools for decades.
| However, this is often only known to older graybeards who still
| use stable industrial code without wider open source
| visibility.
| ppereira wrote:
| Many tools used in chip design are controlled with Tcl. It
| provides a stable repl for these heavy, multi-threaded,
| efficient, C++ programs.
| rkeene2 wrote:
| Tcl tends to get used in weird places, and is stable so has a
| high sticky-ness.
| nerdponx wrote:
| SWIG seems really powerful, but not very common in my experience.
| Why don't we use this more often to create bindings for the same
| important core libraries across multiple languages?
| elteto wrote:
| Oh but it is used a lot, just not out in the open. We use it to
| bridge millions of lines of C and C++ with millions of lines of
| Perl and Python. It is quirky but really stable once you get it
| going.
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