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GTK is so ugly and there are so many problems, I have to ask: why do people persist with it?

There are better options aren't there? There must be something amazing about it I don't understand - can somebody enlighten me?

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GTK is currently the only realistic choice for a (somewhat) modern desktop toolkit for Linux written in C. There's still a lot of C programs and programmers out there.

For me it's also one of the better options for a Linux toolkit with decent Rust bindings. The Rust-native toolkits aren't quite there yet, but I'm watching this page: https://www.areweguiyet.com/

Note that this page is a little bit outdated. Not updated since August 2021, and for example does not mention [0] Relm4 [1].

[0] https://github.com/areweguiyet/areweguiyet/pull/77

[1] https://github.com/AaronErhardt/relm4

> GTK is so ugly

Maybe on other operating systems. It looks fine on Linux, I don't care much for anything else.

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