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Plus the amount of stuff that gets written in Python or JavaScript.

If it is for the high level stuff, they could give Vala some love instead.

I agree. I do not remember why did I switch away from xfce to this new gnome (3.32)? I hope they get faster with their progress.

A story how early GTK3 was loosing so much to GTK2 even with first taking full advantage of fast Cairo rendering.

GTK2 own renderers were managing to outdo external ones for many reasons

Not to mention that GTK3 is so over-optimized that it skips some important calculations and sometimes ends up with certain widgets positioned incorrectly. It's a mess.