I've just made the following builds:
Geany 1.38 built with the latest GTK and other dependencies, including some extra fixes which I plan to release as the official macOS build on the Downloads page unless there are some problems with it: https://download.geany.org/snapshots/geany-1.38_osx-5.dmg https://download.geany.org/snapshots/geany-1.38_osx_arm64-2.dmg
Like the above but Geany and plugins are from current git master: https://download.geany.org/snapshots/geany-1.38_osx.dmg https://download.geany.org/snapshots/geany-1.38_osx_arm64.dmg
Emoji work thanks to a fix in cairo! Geany can finally be used for some serious coding on macOS ;-).