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Not only did this project make a lot of false claims about itself but also other existing programming languages. This included Nim (which I am one of the core devs on).

It’s rather sad to see people get roped in by these claims. This project is a true example of how far pushing false promises and lies can get you and it makes me a bit sad about the world.

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Do you have links to false claims about Nim?

I don't and to be fair, from what I recall, these were dropped from the V website as soon as the Nim community challenged them.

Nothing was dropped: https://vlang.io/compare

This can be verified via web archive.

This has been the only mention of Nim.

What claims are false?

You make very big accusations ("a lot of false claims about itself but also other existing programming languages", "a true example of how far pushing false promises and lies can get you and it makes me a bit sad about the world"), and yet you can't provide examples of such claims and lies.

I think they meant V-lang is making false claims about itself.

I meant both V-lang making false claims about itself and making false claims about Nim.

Please get specific - not sure what you're talking about. I've only ever seen other folks coming in and attacking V really quite baselessly.

The specifics were discussed in the Nim forum: https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/4758

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