Talk:Genie (programming language)

genie syntax highlighting lost
Since the switch from Geshi to Pygments for syntax highlighting (T85794), support for 'genie' was unfortunately dropped, as can be seen with the plain text formatting on this page and others such as Alice (programming language). If you want specialised 'genie' syntax highlight support again, it will need to be added to Pygments. Alternatively, if there is another language which has similar syntax, we can add that as a fallback. John Vandenberg (chat) 07:00, 18 July 2015 (UTC)


 * editors Geany and "io.elementary.code" and pastbin.com do have Genie syntax highlighting, but KDE Kate does not yet as of 2019. Shame, the pedia dropped Genie being a tier 1 language all across €urasia. 217.226.248.110 (talk) 10:06, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

Genie so viable in 2019 !
Most Genie projects (which are 7, i.e. few in number) from github (link to search), overflow asf. do no longer build, fell into disrepair. But Genie is still totally viable. --217.226.248.110 (talk) 10:10, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
 * The truth is Genie is a gimmick, with even less development than Vala. Vala has very little developers and very little work done on it. Genie only introduces extra fragementation to already very small ecosystem. To me as a person knowing many languages (dozens), and even developed my own, it feels like a toy language, written as an exercise without any good practical reason for it, and should be avoided. Even Vala is something I would be extremal careful about, as the number of developers maintain and developing it is dangerously low to be almost considered abandoned. It also doesn't promise to be really well supported in a next decade, making any project using Genie or Vala at very high risk of being impossible to develop further in the future without porting to other language first. (vala and genie compilers might for example be removed from future builds or distributions, library bindings might become outdated, etc, etc.). 81.6.34.246 (talk) 20:41, 2 September 2019 (UTC)