Xlib is old? do developers use xlib framework? It was developed in 1985 [closed]

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Does anyone still use it? xlib seems such an old framework?

what other major similar software is used instead of this old xlib?

What is used instead of xlib?

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XLib is still used in most X11 toolkits however, there is a newer library called XCB that is slowly replacing it. XCB is lower level than XLib and allows you to minimise the number of round-trips to the X server leading to lower latency.

http://xcb.freedesktop.org/