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I get that, but if you're going to deal with the impedance mismatch anyway, I would just go all in and use Swift for everything. But I guess that's assuming that GTK/GLib is fairly easy to wrap in a language like Swift, which I assume is true given all the different language bindings out there.

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I think a difference between Vala and everything else is that Vala has been written with gobject as its "native" object system whereas everything else uses the glib bindings.

Kinda like using COM from Visual Basic 6 vs using it from plain C.

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