Original Nautilus and early GNOME developer here. I am very out of touch with what is current, so excuse some possibly ignorant questions. How is this a Rust-based environment if it is based on GTK? I assume GTK is still essentially the C-based GTK we used with some improvements.
Why is this called Rust-based? I’ll do some more research but would like to get some insight from more knowledgeable sources.
Also GTK4 means they are still at the mercy of GNOME which changes APIs often and without consideration for third parties.
Wasn't the whole point of the project to emancipate themselves from GNOME? If they rely on GTK they will fail.
With the transition from version 3 to 4, GTK is now more focused on being a generic UI toolkit, with GTK4-based libadwaita now being the place to be for GNOME-specific patterns.