Comment by arp242
1 year ago
I don't know what "musk approach" is, presumably referring to Elon Musk?
> interesting that bill joy did use a similar way, but i assume that an incomplete text editor is a lot less critical than a failing compiler :)
I think it's very common. GitHub is probably full of projects that do this to some degree. But most people also don't pay attention to these projects.
I'm not saying the V people are without blame or couldn't have be better, but there's definitely a lot of toxic feedback looping going on here.
Musk says "full self driving car next year for 60k" means "partial self driving in 5 years for 75"
I don't have a full explanation of why V made me so angry, but coming up with so many bold claims invalidating whole decades of an entire industry is mind boggling for sure.
Ah right. Well, Tesla is a company, whereas V is basically just a few people working on it in their spare time. I don't think you can really compare the two or hold them to exactly the same standards.
Or to put it in another way: people can be flawed, and I think that's okay. I don't think it's right to jump on that with assumptions of malice.
I think people (and designers of other languages, in particular) were outraged that not only did V have the very aspirational claims, but there was also a Patreon (or similar) and the general attitude of the newly forming V community that felt undeserved for that level of...aspiration. I think that doesn't quite fall under malice, but I imagine it felt unfair to many.
"v" claims to be a language in which you can choose between an "arena", "garbage" and "don't care, do it for me" memory handling, on compile time, without taking care of your code base at all.
That's an extraordinary claim, to say the least. And, as we all know, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proofs.