> Even worse, due to the irritation the GTK+3 move caused to developers, many switched to QT4 or QT5, which requires use of C++, so a typical linux distro now h

> Even worse, due to the irritation the GTK+3 move caused to developers, many switched to QT4 or QT5, which requires use of C++, so a typical linux distro now has a mix of GTK+2, GTK+3, GTK+4, QT4 and QT5 applications I mean, even on my Windows and Mac machines I have software using GTK2 (GIMP), GTK3(Zim, Geany), Qt4 (various proprietary software), Qt5 (Strawberry, music player, etc)... plus a ton of other toolkits (Juce, Fltk, TKinter, the various Windows APIs, Cocoa, ...). And unlike linux every app has the DLLs duplicated. It causes exactly zero problems.