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I'm pretty sure none of V will deliver on its promises. Wouldn't be surprised if nothing came out of the announcement at all. Author seems to have a history of
by dna_polymerase 8y ago
I'm pretty sure none of V will deliver on its promises. Wouldn't be surprised if nothing came out of the announcement at all. Author seems to have a history of big claims and vanishing shortly after. Also details on implementation specifics here in the comments don't make him sound like someone who has an idea of the internals of a compiler or programming languages.
- emmelaich 8y agoCan you give some citations / references? FTR, I found his (former?) eul\.im which now redirects to some fishy website.
- dna_polymerase 8y agoThat's what I referred to. His comment history looks like he is advertising his chat apps all the time. One comment pointed out, that eul.im was 4MB in size but loaded a browser runtime upon initial start, also he never opened the source. I'm not saying that he is a scam or anything but that product page makes some very huge claims and has little to no proof for V's existence. So I think it is too soon to celebrate the new GOAT in the programming language game.
- dkersten 8y agoThe claim that the language is guaranteed thread safe without data races is also unsubstantiated. Avoiding data races, and more importantly, dead and live-lock, are incredibly difficult problems to solve. V looks interesting, but I'll wait and see before I jump onboard.
- coldtea 8y agoSadly, that's the conclusion I came too after reading more details/responses. Lots of handwaving, things mentioned as language features on the webpage and then revealed to not be present (in responses), and lack of specifics...