I’m just back from the 16th Tcl/Tk Programming Conference, which was held in Portland, Oregon. Good conference. I learned a thing or two, but more importantly, I got to see the whole gang. I figured out yesterday that I’ve been to nine of the sixteen conferences, i.e., just over half; I’ve made a lot of good friends that I only get to see once a year. (I won’t list them; there are too many of them, and I’d be sure to miss one or two.)

The conference was a little bigger this year than last, continuing a trend; and as usual I was impressed by the international presence. There were two from Australia, at least two from Great Britain, one from the Netherlands, at least two from Poland, and several from Germany. Oh, and Jeff and Andreas from ActiveState, which is in Canada. (It was good to see Andreas; I met him at the first Tcl/Tk conference I went to, and we’ve had regular contact over the years, but seldom face-to-face.)

There’s neat stuff coming down the pike. Tcl/Tk 8.6 is nearly complete, with a bunch of new features (TclOO, coroutines, among lots of others), and there was much talk about Tcl 9. It’s a good time to be using Tcl.