[graemep]

> not to mention everything in the language is basically a string and all that entail

I disagree with that to at least some extent. Everything is a string works well in TCL because the language is built around that abstraction. It works at least as well as other dynamically typed languages in small projects, and is definitely preferable to Javascript's rather weird weak typing.

It also does async and multi-threading really nicely, and encouraged event driven long before it look off elsewhere.