If I understand it correctly, you used a counter-factual title &#x27;TCL is dead&#x27; (note also the non-convention capitalization - it should be &#x27;Tcl&#x27;), and assumed that a good number of people on HN would understand 1) it was satirical, 2) the need for counter-pessimists, 3) the context in which to understand the numbers shown, and 4) whatever &#x27;popcon&#x27; means.<p>I - and I&#x27;ll add that I&#x27;ve published papers on using Tcl for molecular graphics, in software which still has 10K+ users - don&#x27;t have any of that understanding. I know Tcl is still active, if a minority language, and is a good fit for some niches. (One of which is regression testing, with the SQLite test suite being perhaps the most famous.)