19/3/2021 python now replaces TCL on all of BestEDA command-line-interfaces and APIs
Somewhere on the west coast, 19/3/2021 BestEDA, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEST) today announced it is phasing out TCL in favor of python on all its platforms, tool APIs and tool CLIs. Starting today, any released product will have a python API that is fully compatible to BestEDA legacy TCL. Legacy TCL will still be supported, but will be gradually dropped, as the 5 remaining users retire over the next 2 years.
“As an industry leader, we’re committed to keep up with the technologies that best-serve our customer base. And, while we still believe in TCL, the trend over the last one, two, five and yes, even 10 last years have been clearly going in the opposite direction. The giant’s fight between TCL and Python is over“, says an obviously moved BestEDA executive. “TCL has served us well, over the years, allowing us to provide an API, and at the same time ensure nobody will ever use it. I will miss it”.
“We’ve been trying to hire someone that knows TCL, or is even just willing to learn it, in order to allow us to customize our tool flows for at least 5 years. No one ever called”, says d a BestEDA customer. “We begged BestEDA to provide some other language support, but they kept insisting TCL will come out on top against Perl…err sorry Python. We tried to pressure them by bringing in a second source. All that got us was TCL 8.2 instead of 8.1. I don’t believe in conspiracies, but I’m 100% positive these guys are all in some sort of a TCL secret trust. I really didn’t think I’ll live to see that day come”
Will we?
Which Python? 2.x, 3.x? Built-In or Distribution provided?
Field-Programmable gate arrays engineer | Member AAAS
3 年Who is BestEDA? Not major if I've never heard of them.
Award-winning Engineer and Actor at Qamcom
4 年I used to think like this but over the years I have changed my mind. Why? Well, TCL is simple enough so that the EDA vendors can't get it too wrong and the APIs are usually exemplary stable. Give them Python and I'm sure we would end up with one vendor's API only working on 32-bit Python 2.4, the other would only work with a special Python version that the vendor provides and the third would use module names that conflicts with most regular uses of Python. So, no thanks. Give us a TCL API and let open source devs add Python bindings to wrap it instead
Semiconductor & Electronics | Babson College | IIT Bombay
4 年Python.... not happening, perhaps Cobra may happen... but we need a snake charmer from India to do it ??
Founder of Redwood EDA
4 年What??!! EDA is inching closer to 2010?