Comment by mirashii

There's plenty of reasons in this article and the comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39492680.

My tl;dr:

The vlang team has repeatedly made false promises and assertions about what the language can do, ranging from a "we put things that are on our roadmap in our features list" to "we've promised something that is outright impossible". Analyzing how this has changed over the years, the only reasonable conclusion is that they're grifters who are okay with lying.

In addition, they regularly engage in flamewars about it on this site, and their moderation practices of silencing any sort of criticism in their own spaces and calling anyone who dares question it idiots are well known and documented.