If you're still writing code to solve the kinds of problems Tcl used to be good at solving, then yeah, sure, Tcl will never go out of style. For the rest of us, there are just better languages and ecosystems for almost any kind of problem (excepting the EDA world, etc., and as far as I can tell, those people aren't generally real fond of Tcl anyway).
"Tcl is also old enough to still have an active Usenet group."
This is actually a good way to look at Tcl. Want to see what computing was like 20 years ago? Well, here you go.
You know, if you spend a lot of time in the Tcl world, but don't really do much outside it, I'd encourage you to dive deep into another language for a couple of projects. I've noticed that the Tcl community is pretty insular, and I think it's to their detriment.
No, you really don't.
" .. absolutum obsoletum .. "
If you're still writing code to solve the kinds of problems Tcl used to be good at solving, then yeah, sure, Tcl will never go out of style. For the rest of us, there are just better languages and ecosystems for almost any kind of problem (excepting the EDA world, etc., and as far as I can tell, those people aren't generally real fond of Tcl anyway).
"Tcl is also old enough to still have an active Usenet group."
This is actually a good way to look at Tcl. Want to see what computing was like 20 years ago? Well, here you go.