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videogreg93 | 1 year ago

Why is v a scam? Genuinely curious, I don't know much about it besides it being a c++ competitor.

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mort96|1 year ago

There has been a lot of ink spilled about how V is not as advertised. I am not going to repeat everything here, but here are some articles you can have a look at:

* "V Language Review (2022)": https://mawfig.github.io/2022/06/18/v-lang-in-2022.html

* "V is for Vaporware": https://xeiaso.net/blog/v-vaporware-2019-06-23/ (and its follow-up, "V is for Vvork in Progress": https://xeiaso.net/blog/v-vvork-in-progress-2020-01-03/)

* This comment on Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/vq4ul...

There's a whole lot more out there too.

alex-m|1 year ago

The same good old 5 year old article that claims V's networking uses system("curl"), complaints that V doesn't run on every single Linux distro on release, uses debug builds with slow backend to measure performance, and complaints about V using git/make/libc and even electricity.

The 2022 article about type checker bugs that have been fixed years ago, and with false claims like the string.len one.

First sentence in the reddit comment:

> V initially made some promises that seemed completely unrealistic (automatically translating any C or C++ program to V)

lol

https://github.com/vlang/c2v

https://github.com/vlang/doom

Completely unrealistic while they literally exist and work.

alex-m|1 year ago

It's not a scam. Read the posts by this person on this page. They're obsessed with the language and make up all these lies.

bowsamic|1 year ago

“My haters are just obsessed with me”

“My haters are just jealous”

Or maybe you and your product are actually bad