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[Glynn Clements]

Russell Shaw wrote:

> Forget widget toolkits. They're totally lame wrappers that hide
> all the useful functionality from you, run like a waterlogged
> sheep, and otherwise assume you don't want to get anything really
> nontrivial running this month.

On the contrary, using bare Xlib you would be hard pressed to write
even a trivial application within a month unless you're willing to
give up a lot of features which many people would take for granted
(e.g. configuration, support for multiple locales, interoperability
with other applications, etc).

As with many things, being different is automatically a loss, so you
have to do better on the other aspects just to break even.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>