What does /prog/ think about Vala?

For me it looks like an attempt to vender lock developers to use nothing but Gnome: if my C++ app is written in c++ and uses Qt to full extent, it's bitch to rewrite it to use e.g. enlightment, but it's still possible. With Vala - no such luck.

Entire application must be rewritten.

I want a UI to be my bitch, not to be a bitch of UI lib.