Comment by kubb
2 years ago
They have cool vision, cool features, talented contributors, but bad PR, particularly around what stage the various features are at.
A bunch of people attacked them based on that, calling out the inaccurate statements. The group included the creator of Odin, a competing language.
There used to be claims that are literally impossible as per the whole field of CS, that were later silently removed. That’s not a good look.
So they are young and foolish but motivated and talented.
I can live with that.
It makes the project look less professional, or legitimate, but that's about it.
There were no impossible claims.
Imho features are non-features until they work. As described. Reliably.
I believe you that as a user you don't care, but for the community that implements the features, they exist in the imagination of the devs, design, planning and early implementation attempts for a long time before you can use them.
You're both right and wrong.
Right in the sense that it can take a really long time to release a work in progress feature.
Wrong that some of the claims made initially were phantasmagorical and also debunked very quickly.
Also, vaporware is a a thing. I'm perfectly willing to stay by the claim that GNU Hurd will be useless to me until the day I die.
For reference GNU Hurd has been in "dev, design, planning and early implementation attempts" for 33 years, and I imagine I'll live 50 more years (fingers crossed!).
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