The GTK C API definitely feels like it's begging for a domain-specific language. I guess that language turned out to be Vala, and from what I could see it was a

The GTK C API definitely feels like it's begging for a domain-specific language. I guess that language turned out to be Vala, and from what I could see it was a pretty nice language. My takeaway from all this is a little bit different though: I feel this whole situation ultimately some credence to the Scheme/Racket philosophy, where you can effectively make yourself a domain-specific language without ever leaving the base language. In an alternate universe, we don't choose between adopting D or inventing Vala. We can just stay in Racket.