Either that's slander, or it needs some explanation and, preferably, documentation.
The devs seem to have made a few enemies. Devs of other small projects, specifically Nim and Zig aren't fans of V to say the least. Nim devs allege that the V project has made defamatory remarks about their project. Zig developer, Andrew Kelly, also had some things to say about V. [0],[1]
There have been numerous occasions of the V dev deleting criticism.
There are claims that the V project has been buying stars on github.
The project makes very bold claims about the feature set while not having actually implemented said features.
There is a popular set of blog posts that dives into the issues with claims vs reality [2],[3],[4]
My opinion is that I do find it disingenuous, and borderline scammy, to accept donations and at the same time claim V can do the things it claims. Ultimately, I think the dev is just not great at managing expectations. I highly doubt any of it is malicious intent. Also, somewhere in one of these, Andrew retracts his accusation of fraud, due to the V devs updating the advertised capabilities of the project.
[0] https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/292
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20230351
[2] https://christine.website/blog/v-vaporware-2019-06-23
[3] https://christine.website/blog/v-vvork-in-progress-2020-01-0...
And if you ask me, it's very impressive that an OS can be written in V as well.
Coffeescript also gained popularity (perhaps until JS caught up and render CS not relevant anymore)
But feel free to look up any older thread on the language. It’s the musk of PLs.
[0] anyone with proper knowledge doesn't claim they can "avoid GC by automatically inserting calls to free"
Its disturbing how this shitfest even gets treated as real, even people who made reasonably good languages (crystal, nim, odin) did not get the hype this got.