> regarding lobster memory management:

> the scope of anonymous functions cannot outlive variables' scope they reference, however V plans full closure support

> lobster compiles whole codebase at once (so it can properly track data flow across module boundaries), however V plans incremental compilation support

> both points are direct consequence of lobster's choice for memory management, ie solving them would mean moving away from lobster's strategy as far as I undersand

https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/1247

Lobster's approach at least has some theoretical rigorousness to it. What V is doing is quite different both in terms of the implementation and the requirements from the language itself and they have never been shown how their version is sound.