carries around a lot of baggage from the last 40 years

cries in C stdlib

I hate null terminated strings. Though the rest of just C without the “pluses” is nice. Nobody really kept adding new things unlike in C++, it’s just mostly the good old stuff.

Anyways

GTK basically asks you to write plain C

From my perspective, glib is all possible languages at once implemented as C macros. What you are actually writing is technically valid C, but I would consider it “glib language” lmao.