That’s a shame; this would have made browsing the web so much nicer.

Also, Even if the EP does manage to force it to be kept in, it’s disconcerting that the EC is so susceptible to being lobbied in the first place (just like was the case with Stop Killing Games). That should be the main story here, and the main thing Parliament focuses on before it gets taken over by big money as well.

I think the saving grace is that you never actually see the C (it’s piped straight in to GCC), so it might as well not exist. C GObject code has a lot of boilerplate and I like to think that Vala is the programming language that GTK programmers are actually thinking in when they write their C. Vala is essentially a compression of the C code with less room for errors.

I definitely recommend using Vala for Gtk as it was tailor made for it. It’s built on top of the object system that Gtk uses so the API fits in to the language flawlessly, unlike Rust. It even has its own website for browsing the Gnome APIs https://valadoc.org/