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Comment by pepa65 | Hacker News Reader

I know it's hugely unpopular with some of the HN crowd, but V (vlang) is definitely a worthy competitor in this space. I tried Nim, Zig, etc. but liked Odin (in spite of some oddities in syntax and usage). Now I've moved over to V in this space (although Zig has a lot of traction, so I keep following it).

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Why is it hugely unpopular if you don't mind me asking?

Vlang is infamous for crowdfunding on the back of many extremely grandiose, but not actually implemented claims. The poor quality of what did exist was very evident as well. It also had at least a few keyboard warriors associated with it who would play motte and bailey up and down every comment section. I can't speak much to the present state, but I suspect only a few people view it in any serious light.

For somebody who wants to go down this rabbithole, this post [1] is probably a good start. The author has made many posts regarding the V language.

I haven't looked into it too hard but until a few years back, boolean variables were 4 bytes.

[1]: https://christine.website/blog/vlang-update-2020-06-17/

Here is a recent review of the language: <https://n-skvortsov-1997.github.io/reviews/>

TL;DR it does not make V, the community, nor the creator look good.

That is definetly not a review. Thats a shit post from an "hater" (He acknowledged this himself in the article) written caused he got banned.

I doubt people know what an honest review looks like nowadays

V has a garbage collector, so it does not compare with zig or odin

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