[ainar-g]

Why the quotation marks? If I recall correctly, Vala compiles (by way of C) into native code.

[iso8859-1]

GNOME uses a lot of JavaScript nowadays, so large parts of an application can be interpreted. Here are the GJS docs, it gives you an idea of how much JavaScript there is: https://gjs-docs.gnome.org/

[nozzlegear]

Does Elementary use Gnome? I thought it was something else. It's been years since I've been on Elementary, but it didn't feel like it was just a Gnome skin iirc.

[treyd]

Haven't they gradually been moving away from gjs though?

[amaccuish]

Sorry, meant native as in made by the elementaryOS team (it's an Ubuntu-based distro).