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@@ -18,3 +18,8 @@ Meson will now check the keyword arguments used when calling any function
and print a warning if any of the keyword arguments is not known. In the
future this will become a hard error.
+## Add support for Genie to Vala compiler
+
+The Vala compiler has an alternative syntax, Genie, that uses the `.gs`
+file extension. Meson now recognises and uses Genie files.
+
diff --git a/docs/markdown/Vala.md b/docs/markdown/Vala.md
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---
title: Vala
-short-description: Compiling Vala programs
+short-description: Compiling Vala and Genie programs
...
# Compiling Vala applications
-Meson has support for compiling Vala programs. A skeleton Vala file looks like this.
+Meson has support for compiling Vala and Genie programs. A skeleton `meson.build` file for Vala looks like this:
```meson
-project('valaprog', ['vala', 'c'])
+project('valaprog', 'vala', 'c')
glib_dep = dependency('glib-2.0')
gobject_dep = dependency('gobject-2.0')