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On Wed, 7 Oct 2015, DJ Delorie wrote:

>
>>>> Essentially you're saying that you would like a toolkit with a
>>>> lifetime of "forever"
>>>
>>> You mean like Motif?  :-)
>>
>> That's a great example. The world moved on and Motif now "feels"
>> outdated. I'm sure it's perfectly fine though!
>
> The Motif/lesstif toolkit is still supported, and has been stable for
> decades.  Despite how it "feels" to you, it's the closest we have to
> meeting the `lifetime of "forever"' criteria.  Compare to GTK where
> a two-year-old ABI is considered obsolete.

Is it ported to things other than X11?