Re: [Vala] Genie status

[Andrea Del Signore <sejerpz tin it>]

On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 15:35 +0200, Luca Bruno wrote:
> 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 know from the sources, it's just the parser that it's different
everything else use the same code as vala.

> I'd like to understand the reasons why he said it's dead.

He just reported what he was told in IRC if I understood correctly ;)

This is good news, indeed!

Ciao,
Andrea