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Can you list any claims that fell apart?

For example, one of the biggest claims has always been fast compilation. Here's V compiling itself in 0.3 seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvP6wmcl_Sc

V was also self hosted (written in V) from the start, which says a lot about the maturity of the language.

> Combined with all the delays

There were no delays. The project was announced to be released in June, and it was.

By the way, we now have a cool OS written in V, that can already run Bash, g++, and V itself!

https://github.com/vlang/vinix

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> V was also self hosted (written in V) from the start, which says a lot about the maturity of the language.

How could that possibly be true? You need a V compiler to compile V but none would have existed "from the start".

You've also said multiple times on Discord that the original V compiler was written in Go.

By "from the start", I meant "from the first public release", sorry for the confusion.

Of course initial version was written in Go, but it was never released.

> Can you list any claims that fell apart?

On home page, the very first claim:

> No null

However V has `nil` or any reference can be initialized to `0`. How is then claiming `no null` not false?

There's no `nil` in the language, but indeed there's a hack that allows to assign 0 to references.

It's on the 0.3 roadmap, high priority.

Similarly almost every feature in V has some hacks or doesn't work outright. But authors of V don't have enough dignity to mention the in-progress/missing features on home page. And when somebody points them to their dishonesty, they block them on discord.

No, this is completely false.

I see you created this account to spread false information about V:

> Ditto same experience, I asked if somebody could explain me the memory model of V; and all of sudden hell broke loose. I was asked why do I need to know how memory model worked, are you a troll, if you don't contribute to the lang you're not welcome here. Never asked a second question again.

This never happened. Otherwise you could send a link to the discord conversation.

No one gets banned or called a troll for asking questions.

Besides, the memory model is explained in details on the home page.

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