My Hero of the Day is @valadaptive@github.com, who came out of nowhere and, just like that, deleted 11K lines of FontForge legacy code.
After the initial shock and dismay, the rather conservative board eventually agreed, and today her PR was merged 🚀
github.com/fontforge/fontforge…
Remove X11 and non-Cairo drawing backends by valadaptive · Pull Request #5612 · fontforge/fontforge
Resolves #5611 by just removing support for the X11 backend entirely. If the eventual goal is to implement everything in GTK, we can remove some X11-exclusive code and get rid of quite a bit of cru...GitHub
