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Comment by sagichmal | Hacker News Reader

This is vaporware bordering on a scam, please don't signal boost it.

https://christine.website/blog/v-vvork-in-progress-2020-01-0...

This is a language in development, which already has code available, compiles, has programs and libs written in it, etc. One could say varpourware back in spring when V was first posted but the repo was closed etc. Not anymore.

But you could say that it overpromises and underdelivers...

I don't understand why someone would even waste their time writing an article like this.

This is like complaining about a painting that is not finished yet.

The project clearly states that some features are a work in progress (wip)[0]. What happens when this project achieves all those goals? That blog post will become irrelevant.

If this is 'vaporware' why is it open source? We should be happy that this project is now developed in the open and not closed up.

[0] https://vlang.io/

Just teething problems I reckon par for the course for a new language.

Not honoring monotonic let alone semantic versioning is a bit annoying but oh well.

These are not normal teething problems, it's straight up poor poor software and the claims about the supported features are quite simply lies right now. Last time I looked at the compiler, it was basically doing search and replace to generate buggy C code.

Oh that’s horrendous given the safety claims they are making!

Came here to ask why this project was at the top of HN with 15k stars on github yet I had never heard of it. Was also wondering just why- the scope, claims and goals of the project make no sense.

> hellomodule ... hellomodule.o ... hellomodule__print_1_1 ... "cannot import module "mymodule" (not found)" …oh dear. Can someone file this as an issue for me?

Well...

A scam on what? Did you pay money for this? Just like any other open-source language, it is a work-in-progress and obviously isn't complete. If it were vapourware, it wouldn't be open-source would it?. ;)

It's nice to keep posting links from authors who are biased against the V project but I don't think you have at least tried the language.

Just like an operating system, a programming language is very difficult in itself to maintain and V seems to be actively maintained. So please signal boost it.

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