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[jmh530 via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 09:17:46 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
>
> Well, gnome is written entirely in C AFAIK, so it's definitely 
> possible to write full-scale desktop applications in C without 
> C++. But off the top of my head, I don't know of any C GUI 
> toolkits other than GTK.

They also make heavy use of the GObject library. A few years ago 
they created the Vala language, which combines the two and 
compiles back to C.