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Wow, calling me a fraud and a scam artist based on these "facts"?..

The compiler has ZERO dependencies, as stated on the website. You can build it with `clang v.c`.

Do you really think the compiler needs glfw or freetype to function? It's for the graphics library to build things like the tetris.v example.

As for clang, It was made very clear that V compiles to C in addition to emitting native code, and that it's much more stable at the moment.

Hot code reloading will be available on June 22.

Cross compiling already works, and you saw this on twitter. How can you claim it's a lie? https://twitter.com/v_language/status/1137537130887077890

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> Hot code reloading will be available on June 22.

What the heck, so you have claimed that it's just a readme or source cleanup but that was actually a huge missing feature. You said that you have high standards [1], but you don't seem to have high standards on what you say.

[1] https://blog.vlang.io/post/13/Why-isn't-everything-already-o...

You need to detect sarcasm. Did you think I was serious when I said I was delaying by 2 days to clean up readme?

If you weren't serious at that time it'd be a bigger problem.

You remind me of another russian school kid "inventor" that "created" completely new OS named "BolgenOS" :D Basically reskinned Ubuntu and tried to present it as 100% original software.

> Do you really think the compiler needs glfw or freetype to function? It's for the graphics library to build things like the tetris.v example.

Do you ship the compiler with those libraries that require those packages? If yes, then the compiler is not 400kb. The compiler nowadays never means only the compiler executable, it means the complete environment it ships with.

The V compiler is the program that builds source in V. It has zero dependencies, and that's the claim.

The modules can have gigabytes of dependencies, this doesn't make the compiler depend on them.

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