Comment by ModernMech
2 years ago
This right here is why people have a problem with you and your language. You did make outrageous claims, and to now say you didn't is gaslighting. Accordingly, people do not trust you.
Here's just one. On an early version of your webpage you said in big bold font:
> V can translate your entire C/C++ project and offer you the safety, simplicity, and up to 200x compilation speed up.
When people called you out, it turned into this small subscript:
> C++ to V translation is at an early stage.
And it's been in an "early stage" ever since.
I'm sorry, but when you said "can translate your entire C/C++ project" did you mean "can" or did you mean "one day will be able to". Because those are completely different, and to say one when you mean the other is grossly misleading. To now say that you never said the former outrageous claim is gaslighting. We're not idiots or goldfish.
> To now say that you never said the former
wondering if you have any link on where author said this (that he never said the former)?..
https://web.archive.org/web/20190304161953/https://vlang.io/...
You can take a look at the progress of claims.
my question was not about claims progression on website.
I responded to the post where he said "There were no outrageous claims".
"V can translate your entire C/C++ project" is an outrageous claim because it wasn't true then, it isn't true now, and it doesn't appear it will ever be true.
it is typical for experimental/beta/alpha projects that features don't work or/and later found not to be feasible and later dropped from road map, there is nothing "outrageous" here.
From another hand, you clearly tried to manipulate narrative by changing context and specificity.
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