Don't Like Mono? Try Vala.
My recent post about Mono was sincere, and Boycott Novell has the story about Debian wrong, but Gnome actually is pushing an alternative.
Gnome is based on C, which makes it much more difficult to write for than, say, KDE, which is an object-oriented, C++ language. Gnome tries to put some OO structures on top of C, but developers often claim that they don't help a lot.
Enter Vala, which is a new language developed by Gnome specifically for developing Gnome apps. It has a syntax very similar to Java or C# (closer to C# from what I've read) and a precompiler which maps the Vala to C source and header files, which can be compiled into an executable.
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