Re: [Vala] Worried about the state of Genie

[Tal Liron <tal liron gmail com>]

I don't know if this list is the best indicator of usage...

Anyway, we had Jamie McCracken (its creator) post here as if he doesn't 
know if anybody is using Genie, and in any case doesn't plan any further 
enhancements. So, that sounds like Genie dead.

I'm OK with that, of course, but I think the responsible thing to do 
would be to remove all mention of Genie from the GNOME web site and 
deprecate its support immediately. It's hard enough to get people on 
board new languages without having the languages then taken away from them.

But does it really matter if not a lot of people are using Genie now? 
Well, I think they *should* be using Genie. So many people prefer 
Python/Ruby-like syntax over anything that looks like Java/C#. The 
potential is there, Jamie had a brilliant idea, and it would be 
wonderful to have the rest of the Vala project properly back it.

I gave a video-recorded talk about Genie a while ago and it generated a 
bit of interest:

http://pyvideo.org/speaker/836/tal-liron

(Some problems with sound in the first few minutes, later fixed)

-Tal

On 08/28/2013 07:50 PM, Steven Oliver wrote:
> You're not the first, and sadly, I'm sure, you won't be the last to 
> complain on this list about the state of bugs for Vala. As far as 
> Genie, I don't know what to tell you. Is there a separate mailing list 
> for Genie? I'm not sure i've ever seen a question come across here for 
> it.
>
> Is anyone else on this list a regular user of Genie?
>
> Steven N. Oliver