kingkong2022

> other than the C compiler

On windows, clang is about 100 mb download and it further requires msvc install which is around 1 gb download if you only download the build tools.

That in itself is a fucking 1.1 gb dependency.

Yeah you don't. You never added the size of the dependencies (like clang) to the size of the compiler.

And thats what I am saying. You don't even need to add the size of your stdlib. A compiler does not include the stdlib as per your definition . So your compiler is actually much less than 400kb.

> Do you really think the compiler needs glfw or freetype to function? It's for the graphics library to build things like the tetris.v example.

Do you ship the compiler with those libraries that require those packages? If yes, then the compiler is not 400kb. The compiler nowadays never means only the compiler executable, it means the complete environment it ships with.

The claims in the homepage are completely refuted by the readme in the downloaded package. The compiler is not 400 kb dependency free. It requires shit ton of stuff. The codegen as well as hot code reloading is not present, so even the compiler performance claims and hcr on the homepage are lies. Even Rust like memory management that they claimed is not there. Volt is said to be written in Vlang using the UI present in this download. But the readme says that the UI package does not run on Linux, so how can Volt be written in Vlang?

Honesty I don't see why the hype behind Vlang and why so optimistic comments here.

Vlang feels worse than a pre alpha software with a good marketing team that is just trying to make money. It does not even have the features it claims it has. But just look at its patreon, it gets much more than odin lang, which IMO is much further into development than vlang is.

That said, it would not be so bad if the developer did not make false claims and just say that this is pre-alpha software, but instead he makes bold claims and fights for them aggresively (see issue by gingerbill linked elsewhere on this page), which can now be seen that all of them have been lies.

Edit: (posting my comment from below) https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/204914235-How-...

People with patreon accounts should report this guy.