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by play_ac 941 days ago
The Subsurface developer did that 10 years ago and it only was because he personally preferred Qt. Take a step back for a moment and consider that in 10 years that's the only major example that anyone ever brings out. GTK is still very welcoming for contributions to maintain the GDK backends. Developers like that have to actually step up and do it and have patience, instead of outright quitting and running off to Qt which has a whole company to maintain those ports.