Re: [Vala] Worried about the state of Genie

[Tal Liron <tal liron gmail com>]

It doesn't seem that Jamie has the capacity -- or any one single person 
would -- to maintain Genie at the same depth as the Vala dialect. 
Frankly, fixing serious bugs once a year is not enough for a 
cutting-edge programming language. And it's falling far behind Vala in 
features.

After some thinking, I want to make this suggestion: Jamie, or anyone 
else, would it be possible to write a tool to translate Genie files to 
Vala? I imagine this would not be too hard with the current Genie parser 
code. This would allow those of us who invested a lot in Genie an easy 
transition into the mainline. We would just say that Genie was a brave, 
terrific experiment that ultimately failed.

An example of one of my huge Genie projects:

http://code.google.com/p/khovsgol/source/browse/

That's 17,000+ lines of code in a language that's going to be left 
behind. Please don't make me rewrite it in Vala. I already rewrote it 
once from Python to Genie. :/

-Tal