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Very interesting! Never read anything about binary editing. Cool project!
Obvious question: why not GTK4?
even more obvious question, why not Qt?
This was mainly because I don't know C++ but I do know C.
Outside of that, I generally sway more towards gtk apps then qt apps and I use Budgie, so it fits in with my desktop better. Gtk also seems to be more widely used than Qt on linux. And Qt seems to delegate more of its functionality to standalone libraries, which means more dependency tracking which I am very opposed to, whereas Gtk packages one library that encompasses most of the libraries functionality (although I don't know enough about qt to be sure if this is the case).