Maybe a hint?

Posted Jan 14, 2026 21:07 UTC (Wed) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Maybe a hint? by ebee_matteo
Parent article: Debian discusses removing GTK 2 for forky

> Gtk+ is community led. It has some backing from one big "customer" (IBM), but apart from it, it doesn't have the same constraints.

In this context, "resources" would be a better word to use than "constraints".

At any point over the past 20 or so years, I'd bet there were about two orders of magnitude of folks being paid to work on Qt than on GTK. Heck, Qt alone probably had more developers than the entire GTK ecosystem (ie GNOME + applications) put together.

(FWIW, I've found Qt quite pleasant to use, and I say that as someone who generally loathes C++)