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Comment by amedvednikov | Hacker News Reader

Yes I delayed the release by 2 days to clean up readme. "Lol"

This is the first time I've ever heard of why the source release was delayed. I have also managed to see the related issue [1], which was posted too late. You should have said at the first time. [2]

You have instantly earned much reputation by releasing Volt at the first time; that reputation is much easier to lose as well. People easily gets disappointed, no matter what you have achieved (or think that you can achieved); you should be very careful. Or you can stack much reputation that your mistake or short-sighted action doesn't harm yourself.

[1] https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/287

[2] Not that I like this form of release. Proprietary languages simply don't work in the modern world.

I'm sorry, proprietary languages? What are you referring to?

A pledge to make your language free (as in freedom defined by FSF [1], so its antonym is proprietary) is not an open source by itself. Currently your language is not free.

EDIT: s/open source/free/

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

V is going to be released in 2 days and be free with a permissive license.

You can't call an unreleased language proprietary.

You have a working playground and have briefly released a binary. At the very least the second qualifies as a distribution, an important event when we are talking about F/OSS. Your language is therefore still proprietary.

Many current programmers think F/OSS as a norm and proprietary (released or not) as exceptionally shady. Even though some may think proprietary software is acceptable, something being F/OSS is a label with the non-trivial amount of value. Your act can be interpreted as claiming that value without actually being F/OSS, no matter what was your intention.

Honestly, what is the holdup on releasing the source? Other languages are developed entirely out in the open - what are you worried about? Why not just release it today in whatever state it's in, as was previously promised?