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vaylian 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Vala Programming Language

Vala has a sibling language called Genie[1]. Both languages are basically the same, but Vala uses a C#-like syntax while Genie uses significant whitespace like Python. They are both compiled by the same compiler (valac).

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Genie

nu11ptr 5 months ago | [–]

Yep, unfortunately it is a dead language and I believe has been for a while now.

Genie = 24 repos:

https://github.com/search?q=language%3AGenie%20&type=reposit...

Vala = 3.1K repos:

https://github.com/search?q=language%3AVala+&type=repositori...

megapoliss 5 months ago | [–]

Genie is deprecated https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vala/-/issues/1473

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