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I don't see the point of FyneDesk; I'm sure that a clever person could reproduce this environment with FVWM.

Yeah, but then it wouldn't be with Go.

point being? this Go brigading is annoying

Any language that helps to reduce C's status quo is welcomed, Go, Checked C or whatever.

One piece at a time.

Yeah. Fyne picked Go because it is a great language for building a GUI - not because we were Go developers. Fyne existed before the founders knew any Go :)

Mostly coding window managers and desktop environment in C/C++ is so painful that you can see why it stagnated 20 years ago...

Is that really a problem with C/C++ or an issue with the X Window System?

Personally I think both. Yes the X11 APIs are horrible to work with - but decent code can abstract that away so the app APIs are sane. Doing that was easy with Go, but doing the same with C seems to end up passing around `void*` everywhere, so type safety (and a good coding experience) goes out the window.

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