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
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