They are also in the process of ditching GNOME and moving to Rust [0]. (For those that get exciting about that sort of thing).
[0] https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-the-road-to-alpha
It's not like GNOME is vehemently opposed to Rust, librsvg has already been ported over:
https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/librsvg/doc/rsvg/index....
They are also in the process of ditching GNOME and moving to Rust [0]. (For those that get exciting about that sort of thing).
[0] https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-the-road-to-alpha