[xmonkee]

I have the same issue, but I blame the absence of good package management. If it had that, one of the thousands of these libraries would have won out and become quasi-standard.

[le-mark]

I always thought the glib part of gtk was really nice for this, but adoption is spotty at best.

[ranger_danger]

glib is a massive dependency just for this, and I think many would argue that gtk in general is not a good idea for painless cross-platform development in 2023.