[aikah]

> isn't that rust, but better?

Clearly no, because Vala has a bunch of issues with memory safety. Not because it's a bad language, but since it translates directly to GObject, there is a lot of problems around pointers, ownership, ... mainly because that language lacks maintainers and GTK/Gimp developers didn't like it because they are "C essentialists".

[sylware]

"C essentialist" is a line very hard to hold, because C via ISO is moved towards an horrible language like c++ (generic,__thread,etc). So, it is not C anymore, it is simple and lean C which should be the target of an essentialist line of conduct. Whatever, a good new language would first and above all be easier to write a compiler for than simple C.

[bonzini]

__thread is essential for some applications, what's wrong with it?