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Very intrigued by this language but the lack of tangible information is beginning to hurt. I find myself questioning some of the claims and demos shown on the front page. Like translating C/C++ code? Is the doom3.v thing completely fake or not?

I'm not sure why it's being presented this way. I'm guessing it's probably structured this way for sake of Patreon, but it's actually a huge turn off.

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I've put a lot of information on the home page and the docs.

I'm working on articles about C/C++ translation right now. They will be up in a couple of days.

What else is hurting you? I'll update the website.

It's not that there isn't enough information; it's that there's a lot of amazing claims and no way for me to evaluate them. Like I'd love to know more about the supposed C++ translation. The homepage shows an example with seemingly idiomatic translation, but is that actually representative of what people could expect?

The GitHub issue about the playground says C++ translation is "not coming soon".

So the claimed C/C++ translation looks misleading.

C++ translation will be done by the time the language is open sourced. I can already compile simpler projects.

Any non-trivial C++ program typically uses the STL or a similar library, which requires the full expressiveness of C++ to be implemented.

So, no, I don't think you have done even a tiny fraction of what C++ entails.

I support STL and even plan to support Boost.

That does not make sense. Either you support both because you can translate most C++, or you don't support any (modulo bugs).

Maybe you are hardcoding detection of a set of known types by hand?

Why delay the open source release of V for a complicated feature (C++ translation) that is not part of the core language?

AFAIK it was posted without the authors knowledge both times.

The point still stands, I mean if the author didn't want people looking at the page it certainly doesn't have to be public. It is what it is, I suppose; here's to hoping the red flags are misnomers.

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