That's not at all the vibe I get from one of the lead devs posting here. I see it more as frustration from dealing with low effort snipes/trolls.
The language used on the main vlang site also seems calm, clear and unsensational (at least to me).
The language used on the main vlang site also seems calm, clear and unsensational (at least to me).
It wasn't always like this. Back in 2019, its website looked like this:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190303184805/https://vlang.io/
As you can see the website claimed that its compiler is "200x faster" than C compilers, while neglecting to mention that it merely translates V code to C, so you still have to run a C compiler.
"400 KB compiler with zero dependencies" (apart from a C compiler and libc).
"As fast as C" - a lie.
Apart from deceptive marketing, there were serious issues with the code quality of the compiler:
https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/d32e538073e55c603992b5b65ebc...
The 200x compile speed up referred to C++ compilers, this was vague and hard to measure, since the languages are so different, and was removed.
The code may not have been perfect at the time of the 0.0.1 release, but it worked. V could compile itself.
Now it's much better and more organized.
No, just because it outputs C it doesn't mean it's as fast as hand-written C. Using that logic, every language that outputs machine code is as fast as assembly, which is obviously not true.
As long as you use the same data structures and algos, you'll get the same perf.
There's stuff like bounds checking, but it can be disabled, and it adds like 5%.
That's exactly what it is :)