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> Unfortunately GTK is currently not in a very active state. There seems to be one or two paid full-time developers which try to finish official release 4.0 and a few volunteers which support the development.

Really selling it there. If I'm going to learn a thing the last thing I want to hear is "dead project"

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It’s not dead. Yes development is slow but there is the foundation which had a few paid devs and red hat pays some people too.

Mostly it just means the scope of future plans for the project remains narrow

he is not trying to sell/convince you to learn gtk. he is warning if you already want to learn it. not everything posted on hn should be a promotion material.

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