

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 stil wish Autodesk stuff worked on Linux, or at least that it had a good enough alternative. FreeCAD feels stuck in the 00s unfortunately. I use a VM