Re: [Vala] Worried about the state of Genie

[Tal Liron <tal liron gmail com>]

I'm not sure how Genie is more "transitional" than Vala in your view. 
Both offer the same benefits, just with a different syntax.

Some of the bugs are real bugs: things that are supposed to work but don't.

Some of them are requests to get Genie on par with Vala features -- 
there are things you simply can't do in Genie right now, but can do in 
Vala, and they are important. You can argue that these aren't bugs per 
se, but they do make Genie weak.

But some are truly linguistic: you are free to argue that the "if" 
statement is not broken, but I think if you read my bug report carefully 
you'll see that in many trivial situations it would indeed appear to be 
quite broken. The current "if" behavior is simply bad. Also, the current 
syntax makes it impossible to use generics in many common situations.

I like your two suggestions, Al, and hope you will open them as 
enhancements so at least we can track them.

But this discussion on specifics is pointless if no work will be done on 
Genie! I believe that the Vala team should reach a clear decision as to 
what to do with Genie. If Genie cannot be supported, then the 
responsible thing to do would be to say so and update the GNOME site.

On 08/29/2013 03:15 AM, Al Thomas wrote:
> I see Genie as a great transitional language, allowing programmers to code at a low level for C libraries and 
> GObject while still using a friendly syntax like Python. So it helps in the transition for people using 
> scripting languages to lower level system programming. I use it and want to carry on using it.