GTK+ 3.92 Released With Many Improvements & New Features

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GTK+ 3.92 Released With Many Improvements & New Features

Matthias Clasen has today released GTK+ 3.92 as the latest test release in the long road towards the major GTK4 tool-kit update...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GTK4-GTK-3.92

[Rexerex]

It's 2017 and people are still writing boilerplate to use object oriented programming in language without even automatic destructors instead of use language with support for object oriented programming.

[Almindor]

It's 2017 and people are still writing boilerplate to use object oriented programming in language without even automatic destructors instead of use language with support for object oriented programming.

That may be true but if they wrote it in a modern OO language the whole thing wouldn't be easily usable outside of said OO language. You'd have to flatten it to get anywhere, back to C..

[johanb]

The vulkan improvements and improved emoji support will be highly appreciated once the Librem 5 gets released :-)

[Hi-Angel]

For some reason not mentioned in release notes, but turned out gtk3 apps since some point have had not working middle-click scroll (i.e. immeditate scroll to the point of the click). With this release it works again, yay!

[dkasak]

It's 2017 and people are still writing boilerplate to use object oriented programming in language without even automatic destructors instead of use language with support for object oriented programming.

The devs are smart people, and they're doing things they way they want to. This offends you?

[Creak]

It's 2017 and people are still writing boilerplate to use object oriented programming in language without even automatic destructors instead of use language with support for object oriented programming.

As much as I prefer C++ over C, it is easier to make a C++ wrapper over a C API, than the other way around.
If you prefer C++, you can use GTK-mm.