[JNRowe]

I can't offer extra recommendations, but just wanted to offer full agreement.

GLib is the awesome standard library I get to use everywhere thanks to gobject-introspection. From work projects in Vala, window manager¹, image viewer², video player³. It is especially useful with lua configurable projects, given the sparsity of the language itself.

¹ https://awesomewm.org/

² https://github.com/muennich/sxiv - my user configs are lua & lgi, extended with gexiv2 also via gobject-introspection.

³ https://mpv.io/

[stretchcat]

Incidentally, mpv is extensible enough to replicate sxiv's features with the right configuration and scripts. I like to think of mpv as the emacs of multimedia.

[h_anna_h]

mpv eats a lot of memory even when you use it to just view images.