Gtk's popularity comes from a couple of things that happened about 20 years ago... - C++ dynamic linking used to be slower on Linux than C dynamic linking - A

Gtk's popularity comes from a couple of things that happened about 20 years ago... - C++ dynamic linking used to be slower on Linux than C dynamic linking - A lot of Linux die-hards are simply C++ haters - Qt's licensing used to be unfavorable to purists, which lead directly to the Gnome-vs-KDE schism. (Though I've always had the feeling that the license fight may have just been a palatable cover for a C-vs-C++ fight.)