[Vala] Vala for everyone

[Denis Reichelt <denis reichelt googlemail com>]

Hi all,  
  
I'm not a GNOME developer but I'm interrested in Vala because for me it would  
be a perfect C frontend. C is virtually platform independent because C  
compilers exist for nearly every processor / controller.  
So my question is:  
Why is Vala that hardly bound to the Gnome world and the gcc compiler?  
Why simply transform Vala code to C and let the platform dependent C compiler  
do all the machine code things?  
I would like to use Vala with embedded devices, not using any linux OS or such.  
Would that be possible, maybe with a reduced library set?  
  
Thanks in advance  
Denis