I have been using Elementary OS for a while, and - in my opinion - it provides a great user experience on Linux mainly using a combination of Vala and GTK+ for the user applications. And with some curiosity I checked if Vala and Rust could talk to each other.

Screenshot of my Elementary setup, default background

Vala

Vala is an OOP language that has been in use and made by GNOME Developers, it uses the GObject type system underneath to support almost all the language features, such as classes, interfaces, etc. It compiles down to C and provides a compatible C FFI interface for the generated code, so any library made in Vala can be used in other languages, like any other library that uses GObject (e.g. GTK+, Pango, etc).

Rather small cookbook recipe for creating Linux bootable drives using your hands some commands and some magic.

you might do this because you’re either:

1. Paranoic and you want to keep your trust chain small, or making your own rootfs.
2. Trying to use an ISO image which doesn’t boot even if you use dd and write it to the USB drive.
3. God knows why, maybe you want some documentation.

Well be using syslinux to accomplish this, you may want to download it using your package manager, downloading a random .exe if you’re on Windows as we all do, or - coughs in paranoic - compile it yourself from the source code.