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by digi_owl 3684 days ago
Frankly the UI toolkit is a lesser issue.

The bigger issue is that the big desktop toolkits, GTK in particular, can't keep their APIs straight. Every other release or so they change some behavior or remove/replace something.

This in contrast to the kernel where once something is in, its in, and stays in that shape.

Thus you can run a CLI binary from the early 90s against a modern kernel. But you can't run a GTK binary from a year or two ago against a current lib version.

Edit: hve you taken to defending your own articles on third party sites now? Dueling in the Arstechnica comments not enough?