Complex sentence: Genie is a modern, general-purpose high-level programming language in active development since early 2008, designed to provide an alternative, simpler and cleaner syntax for the Vala compiler, while preserving the same functionality of the Vala language.
Split into simpler sentences: Genie is a modern, general-purpose high-level programming language in active development since early 2008. It was designed to provide an alternative, simpler and cleaner syntax for the Vala compiler, while preserving the same functionality of the Vala language.