Can someone share why this guy and vlang are so hated? It seems like he is ironing out the kinks even years after the hate keeps piling on.
He keeps this up he's going to win.
it's on the website and in the video I referenced here
I found this in the docs:
>Autofree is still WIP. Until it stabilises and becomes the default, please compile your long running processes with -gc boehm, which will use the Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector
so why do you pick one over the other?
the language is still at 0.2
Because the documentation recommends to use GC instead of auto-free which is "WIP".
Looking at the homepage and the projects it feels like everything is ready and, if the claims were true, it would be the most ground breaking language of the last decades. When you go to look at the code or try to run something you find out: - some things are still closed source - some are broken - some are wins from C
It's a great strategy for collecting a check from VCs and I wish the author the best of luck, but it won't fly with developers.
What things are broken for you?
What claims are not true?
> No things are closed source. Never have been.
That's not correct. I seem to remember that when V was released initially, the compiler was available for download in binary form only. The source code was only released later on.
So saying now 2.5 years later some things are closed source is ridiculous.
You may find the public `go2v` work interesting. It's being worked on by some other folks in the community: https://github.com/vlang/go2v
What is also very interesting, is that when various trolls make their derogatory claims or bash on his creation, he responds to them with facts and references. Many of them never respond back and run away.