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> GUI libraries are heavyweight for a reason: lightweight GUIs do not adequately address accessibility, or internationalization.

GUIs don't need to be heavyweight to be accessible or internationalized (excepting for text translations, which should be downloaded rather than installed)

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I suspect the parent isn't talking about theoretical implementations but choosing an existing GUI framework for a project.

I don't know much about GUIs but lightweight tools often fail to take accessibility into account, and hand-rolled tools almost always do.

Why should text translations be downloaded rather than installed? Oh, you mean not included by default in the installer? I'm not sure why that's very material here.

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