If it's too expensive to send email, why is my inbox constantly flooded with spam? Surely it should be more expensive!

Hmm, nothing in South America, Africa, India, China, Russia. :-/

Try https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Showcase .

Also https://cgicoffee.com/blog/2026/04/tcl-tk-develop-cross-plat... (takes a little time to load).

I wonder what the author of the second article would have thought of wxWidgets in their “why” section. It wouldn’t have the drawbacks that they attributed to Qt.

Wayland support is being worked on, aiming for release in Tk 9.2 next year.

See: https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/GSoC+Idea%3A+Tk+Backend+for+t...

glfw! that's a bit surprising.

i'd expect sdl, given wider platform coverage (e.g. mobile), more system integration (e.g. clipboard), and an existing port (https://androwish.org/home/dir?ci=trunk&name=jni%2Fsdl2tk)

glfw is smaller and more focused (SDL adds a TON of stuff, including even its own GPU abstraction API) so the choice was most likely made because of that focus.

For the full release announcements see:

https://newsgrouper.org/%[email protected]%3E (Tcl) and

https://newsgrouper.org/%[email protected]%3E (Tk).

You do if you're hosting a website on it :-)

I've been running a couple of websites* on a home machine behind a Cloudflare tunnel for 2-3 years now. The only thing I had to pay for was the DNS registration. There are limits on the traffic you can serve on their free plan, but I'm nowhere near reaching those. I don't know what an SDK would add, you just set up a web server using whatever method suits you, then configure the cloudflared to connect to that. I did find that the online dashboard could not support all the options I wanted, so I switched to using the config file method - it would have been easier if I used that method from the start.

One caveat - there is an option to inject Javascript into your pages for traffic measurement which is ON BY DEFAULT, you have to go to "Web Analytics" and turn this off if you don't want it!

* https://cmacleod.me.uk & https://newsgrouper.org

Update - current Fossil versions no longer store user passwords unencrypted as shown in the "Setting up" section of this article.

Newsgrouper is my site. It's not literally "banned", but after spending quite a bit of time studying the Online Safety Act and Ofcom's guidance, I concluded that it was just not practical to comply with its far-reaching requirements, and since I am in the UK I can't risk ignoring UK law.

Ah, the word used on the site is "Blocked" not "banned". Apologies.

A shame that you decided to not support your own country. Imagine how much you could have done whilst explaining this issue!

I run newsgrouper.org as a hobby project. My architecture cannot support searching within article text, only by author, subject and/or date within one group at a time (or the set of groups you have subscribed to). Usenet-Rewind does support full-text search.