V programming language

“making a bunch of claims about the existing feature set that were not accurate”

“making grandiose claims and later releasing things in a partially working state”

“Alex has time and time again promised to write blog articles on various aspects of V's development.”

“Popular open-source projects are not static; they develop, change, and fix things.”

“V's documentation is constantly updated, the language has several books written on it”

“the fact that people write about his work and that he has an active community shows there is something to the project”

“there's still no 1.0, installation tells you to compile the compiler form source and it still uses and depends on a C compiler behind it”

“since then the project has not delivered the grail, instead settling to be more of a mashup between go and C”

“Ease of use is one of its attractive features. Very much geared towards getting people started”

“V (and now Bend) seems like the future to me.”

“It still compiles in 0.5s”

“But in terms of security and reliability, U's linter and compiler enforces that.”

“a programming language that actually enabled the creation of this OS, that is big news!”

“the language promised automatic memory management without downsides, but then instead of implementing that magical feature”

“It had like two releases after ~2-3 years of hype, too.”

“Can't have use-after-free errors if you never free.”

“It is super easy to use, so kind of attracts an audience.”

“the issue has been 1) wildly misrepresenting the quality of the language in the present tense”

“didn't even have real type-checking at the time, nor did it free memory”

“It was nice to use when I tried to dabble with it.”

“years later V still have not delivered on the initial claims that made the language even remotely interesting”

“clearly a significant and successful open-source project”

“Vlang is a ridiculous project that was entirely driven by hype”

“given it's history of being essentially fraudulent”

“Spinoffs like V, Ante, and others are perfect testing grounds.”

“Not python, but, go-like syntax, and satisfies other stuff you mentioned.”

“Mass shadowbanning and banning of V supporters, while censoring lots of positive coverage.”

“I find it convenient for what it does.”

“Compiles in 0.2 seconds on my M5 (compared to Rust's 3.3 seconds).”

“The language server is astonishingly good, the feature set as it stands very much batteries included”

“I found the results to be really promising too”

“Vlang is indeed worthy of a look, as great project”

“I like low-level languages that provide easy access to a GC.”

“Arguably Crystal, Odin, Nim, Zig, V, Vale or Factor are even better!”

“The issue is that autofree is not a 100% solution by itself, in all circumstances.”

“mostly known from stating absolutely ridiculous claims”

“autofree is still stated to use a GC, which obviously disqualifies it from "memory safety without GC"”

“`autofree` partially uses a GC. And is WIP.”

“V-lang is not shiny as other languages are, but, it does have a lot to learn from.”

“In any case, none of those stand out as "memory safety without GC" to me.”