Yet what makes BrowseX significant however is not simply small size and speed. Rather it is the incredible ease with which changes and enhancements can be made. A Pop-Mail client is in Alpha. In this, its initial release, BrowseX is supported on Windows and Linux, and in particular was developed on Redhat 6.x. Instead of crashing from unexpected conditions, a pop-up box listing the problem line of script appears.
Programs can then usually continue.
Even more useful is that Tcl applications can be developed standalone and moved into a web context later. But Tcl's greatest asset would have to be the ease with which it can be learned. For most programmers, the basics can be picked up in a few hours. A tcl-macro preprocessor for both client and server side. Tcl is also available on the server side, a fact that Scriptics has been actively persuing.