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I never mind that creator was ambitious. The problem is he made the claims as if they were implemented, without even knowing about the feasibility of them.

The creator of V also seems to lack knowledge of CS fundamentals and apparently thinking he can make a great language by retrofitting "missing features" into Go.

The language is an unfunny joke.

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Well, I can definitely see why someone would want to add generics and less verbose error handling to Go.

The word is retrofit.

I fail to get the distinction you're trying to make. "To retrofit", to my knowledge, means "to add a part to something that didn't have it originally". Is it supposed to be pejorative?

Slightly pejorative in that it suggests a result that's less effective/streamlined/economical/whatever than had the new part been included (or at least accounted for as a possible extension) in the original design.

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