We recently had a new version of Solus and its popular Budgie Desktop. And like all development that concludes, the next version of the distribution and Budgie Desktop is already being considered.
The new version will be Budgie Desktop 11, a version that portends big changes to the desktop, as can be deduced from its numbering. And it really will be according to the news broadcast by the makers of Budgie Desktop.
Budgie Desktop 11 will be a modular desk written in Vala
As mentioned, Budgie Desktop 11 will reduce dependency on Gnome, a dependency that limits it in a certain way or makes the desktop heavier than normal. The new Budgie Desktop will be written in Vala and will be composed by a core package, a panel, a session package or program, a Window Manager package, a run-dialog package which will be like a launcher and a daemon that will automate certain desktop processes.
These packages or modules make Budgie Desktop 11 a modular desk and by extension, a desktop that is easier to manipulate and change, thus reducing dependence on Gnome and increasing the possibilities of being able to customize it to our liking, being able to change the window manager or the session manager for another that we like more without forgetting the fact that to be able to change other parameters of the modules without affecting the rest of the elements.
All of this takes a lot of work and practically redo the whole desktop so it may take us a long time to see this new version of this striking desktop.
In any case, in the github repository not only can we download all of Budgie's source code but we can also we can see how development is progressing and also collaborate with the team, something that the main developers will surely appreciate.
Actually the desktop is going to be written in C, currently it is written in Vala but they are starting the transition to C which they hope to complete for version 11. Even the founder said that it was not explained as the Elementary OS team with its Pantheon desktop ( Written in Vala) to overcome Vala's limitations.
There is an error in the note, budgie-desktop is being ported entirely to C, they do not accept any more code in Vala, due to serious errors in that pseudo language. It's actually a Vala to C translator and a lot of bugs and security flaws occur along the way. Which makes it impossible to follow the development of budgie-desktop.
You are one of those few indie blogs that I read regularly but when they tell you that you have made a mistake, you do not correct it.
Budgie Desktop is going to be rewritten in C.