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diff --git a/doc/RATIONALE b/doc/RATIONALE new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9c203ce --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/RATIONALE @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +========= +Rationale +========= + +This document defines the rationale of the project. It also explains the philosophy it follows, which shapes the path it follows and justifies the choices it takes. + +Why it started +============== + +Femtokit was born as an alternative to the advanced, somewhat comfortable to use, aesthetically pleasant, and very common user interface toolkits: GTK and Qt. While these toolkits work and do their job decently (except when they don't) I find it unnecessary to also bundle them with a lot of other libraries that have nothing to do with user interfaces just because such libraries are commonly used when developing desktop programs with user interfaces (commonly called "applications). + + |