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Yes, it's still used in a variety of industries; however, given its nature, these uses are not always known.

For example, several prominent hardware companies embed Tcl in their firmware: Cisco, F5 Networks, and TiVo.

While it's true that Tcl was primarily intended to be used as an embedded scripting language, it can also be used for stand-alone application development. Also, the Tk toolkit may be used to create reasonable, cross-platform user interfaces.




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