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A similar language that was created to make creating GUIs more pleasant is Jakt [1] for SerenityOS which is Impressive to see how fast they've been able to develop a pleasant, went from 0 to rust-based then self-hosting compiler inc. VS Code static analysis & intelli-sense in weeks.
Like most of SerenityOS you can follow much of its development is on YouTube [2]. A good video series that captures the language ergonomics is in the "Jaktness Monster" series which goes through creating a NES Emulator from scratch [3].
[1] https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt
Elementary is heavily dependent on the GTK ecosystem, which has its own OOP system implemented in C (for example like GObject). It is really hard to map GTK's OOP semantics to Rust. People have tried things like https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk3-rs, but it requires heavy macro usage and doesn't feel like ergonomic Rust. On the other hand Vala is directly built upon the GObject system on the first place, so it's more fitting for GTK-specific development.
It already can, as it currently just transpiles to C++ it just needs Clang to build [1].
Even though it doesn't require SerenityOS, even SerenityOS GUI apps can run on Linux, Andreas already has SerenityOS has ported its Ladybird Browser [2] to Linux, his last video shows "Abstracting the event loop so Ladybird can be fast & responsive on Linux" [3]
[1] https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt#usage