Comment by baranul

The language is worked on by a group of people from around the world, not just Alex. It has to be looked at as a group effort. The total contributor count is at 722, as of today. There is a lot of rhetoric thrown around as criticism or being attributed to the language creator, but it's not anything he actually wrote. So the point of it, where and why, comes across as really strange.

For instance, not understanding why try so hard to push a 2023 review for an old version of the language, when we are in 2024. But ok, here this is. It comes across as not being neutral because of the very personal dispute against V's creator, as revealed at the bottom of the blog. The super strange ranting displayed by the reviewer at the bottom, destroys all sense of neutrality, and disputably its credibility.

The review itself has various errors or problems that people gloss over or haven't caught some of: 1) It's weird to be complaining about autofree, when the documentation says its WIP and go use the GC for now. They clearly are giving user options for managing memory. 2) He was using the wrong or ignoring other compiler options. 3) The reviewer seems to be intentionally distorting or misrepresenting the coroutine situation; it's WIP and will be used on the Windows OS. 4) It's open source. Report to them or go help fix whatever is the issue, as other people have (hundreds of contributors).

For example, with the coroutines part, research (site and documentation) shows the V project will be using both OS threads and green threads for concurrency. Right now, they use OS threads, with the `spawn` and `go` keywords. In the future, the `go` keyword will only be for green threads, which the critic is referring to (corounties). At V's site, they are working on coroutines (green threads) for the Windows OS and are steadily working on implementing that into the language.

I would think most reasonable people would cut a volunteer open source project some slack and allow them time to improve upon what they are doing, but there appears to be some weird rush and other intent going on. Don't see V's community attacking anybody, just them happily focusing on their language, but it seems a lot of people are going after them, really hard.