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Isn't V fake? https://github.com/vlang/v

That's not particularly charitable. The accidental AMA that happened on HN a few weeks back gave me the impression that V lang isn't as polished as a concept as some of the other offerings out there. BUT the author seemed tp have something brewing. And regardless we'll have some more evidence in the coming months.

Regardless, V lang is another data point that something besides C is a possibility with the modern tools that we have available to us. Whether or not it pans out is almost immaterial. Just the fact that so many people are finding some sort of success or making some sort of progress in this space is enough for me to continue to watch for any new progress in the C competitors.

Yes, V is at a very early stage. I merely created an "about" page, then it got posted, got lots of attention, so I created a website and recently released a playground:

https://vlang.io/play

There's still a lot of work to do, but the language is going to be open-sourced very soon in early June.

i don't want to sound harsh but in 2010s, the way you released (I assume you're V author) mostly make people dubious

Well I haven't released anything yet :) Can you elaborate?

Mainly because it seems like you constantly lie and make promises you can't keep. Some of your claims are outrageous without any evidence.

Of course I would like to be proven wrong.

Can you give an example of my "constant lies" and outrageous claims?

Release dates have been consistently been pushed back for basically the last year. For months your program's website looked like it supported a lot of programs it didn't. Be clear and upfront about what you can do and people will trust you more.

Release the code of your doom3 to v translation, release the code of your sqlite translation.

You can't because they don't exist. And don't say "release coming in 3 days" or some other BS like you normally do. It seems like a way to divert attention until people forget to check again.

It won't work. I can see 300 dollars a month on your patreon, which is probably why you exaggerate so much.

Anyway, I didn't mean to call you a liar, I just meant I will be very happy once it is released. My apologies.

it's a release, a N month long release but it's a release

61 days ago you said [1]

> Yes, I've done a terrible job with estimations and for 9 months I lived in "release tomorrow" mode.

> Ironically this time it it really is going to be released tomorrow (Feb 7).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19102431

If you read the parent, it refers to Volt, and it was released.

I'm sorry, I was mistaken. That was incredibly rude of me.

I mistakenly assumed based on the title of the original post "About V, the language Volt is written in" that the post was about V, but as you pointed out, based on the parent comment it was actually about Volt.

I think I'm just excited to see your source code for V :-)

Why delay it's release? Just throw up what you have on GitHub already.

Btw you should update the language comparison page, see here https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/4758

What should I update?

I wouldn't call it "fake", but yes, it has not been publicly released.

I’m honestly way more interested in Jai.

Can you link to Jai?

https://inductive.no/jai/

Here is a link to a primer written by the community: https://github.com/BSVino/JaiPrimer/blob/master/JaiPrimer.md

Right now, the only way to actually see the language in action is to tune in to Jonathan's livestreams on Twitch. He is writing his next game entirely in Jai. He also streams compiler development every now and then (last night was a compiler stream).

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