Originally posted by TheBlackCat
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And GIMP is a chronically under-resourced project that's had nothing to do with the development of the toolkit since the days of GTK+1. So while I'm not familiar with their codebase, I suspect it's heavily reliant on APIs that were deprecated long ago, but which they've not had the time to do anything about. At which point porting *is* difficult, because you've saved up all your technical debt until it becomes an obstacle to getting anything done, and it all has to be addressed at once.
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