Re: [Vala] Genie status

[Luca Bruno <lethalman88 gmail com>]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 03:05:03PM +0200, Andrea Del Signore wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> after the last vala toys release I just asked to the gedit IRC channel
> what blocks the inclusions of the genie language support in the
> GtkSourceView [1].
>
> So nacho was kind enough to inform me that the last time he asked about
> genie status on the vala channel, they told him that genie is more or
> less a dead language.
>
> Since I was planning to add (at least basic) support for the language in
> vala toys, now it's the time for the genie users to speak so we can hear
> their voices!
>
> If there is still interest in it, nacho has offered to review again the
> bug, so an updated lang file is more than welcome ;)

It's untrue that genie is dead. Genie is different than vala only from a
syntax view point, and there are projects actually using it.
I'd like to understand the reasons why he said it's dead.

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