Actually, quite the opposite, the GNOME folks have been moving away from it: https://www.bassi.io/articles/2017/02/13/on-vala/ https://www.bassi.io/articles/201

Actually, quite the opposite, the GNOME folks have been moving away from it: https://www.bassi.io/articles/2017/02/13/on-vala/ https://www.bassi.io/articles/2017/02/13/on-vala/ I think the only Vala maintainer right now is from Elementary OS, where they use primarily Vala.