Comment by unclad5968

3 years ago

Mostly because the author completely scammed the shit out of people by promising a ton of things to garner patreon support before open sourcing what was essentially a hobby project at the time. I haven't followed it very closely, but last I heard about it was not delivering on the "autofree" feature.

I dont really care about the language. I've tried it a couple times and it's nothing special (to me) so I moved on, but I definitely understand where the hate comes from. The author essentially lied for at least months about his project to get financial support.

Quick edit: to actually add to the discussion, I think the weirdest thing about V is the odd support it does get. Most projects, especially compilers, with as much controversy as V would never get any support. I'm very curious what its proponents are using it for and why they choose V over pretty much any other language.

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amedvednikov  3 years ago

you heard wrong, it's been delivering quite well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmB8ea8uLsM

no one has been scammed, whatever that means in opensource development

  • tene  3 years ago

    Oh, that's really cool to hear! I'm glad that they've turned around.

    So, where can I download the version of V with non-nullable references, no uninitialized memory, no mutation without call-site mutability annotations, that can compile 1M loc/sec, and a functional autofree?