Clankers are successful where humanity has made some sort of mistake. The Tkinter gave me grief in 2015. It was quick to get started, hard to keep expanding or to nail down behavior. I've been giving every CLI tool I've written to a clanker to "add a tkinter TUI" and it does! They are great for discoverability and getting started. Averaging 1000 lines of code. The HTML/JS equivalent, I bet is 1/3 that.
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March 29, 2026