The original issue people had involved money. Money always taints a project. The complaints were that all the claims were WIPs, and none of them were implement

The original issue people had involved money. Money always taints a project. The complaints were that all the claims were WIPs, and none of them were implemented and working to a level that can be relied on and used. Yet the project had already gotten more donations than other similar projects that are way further into their development. Then, a lot of language programmers with credentials behind them came out and basically tried to warn people that going from WIP to Production with all those claimed features is very hard and the chances of failure for V are high. That there was a reason no language currently existed that had all those claimed features together. Doing so is very challenging. So at that point, the outrage was that some people are potentially being fooled into donating for something that will never meet its claims, a.k.a, Vaporware. Or that it's unfair to donate to V, where it could be similarly donated to other languages that's been at it for longer which could make it all happen sooner. Now, here's my take. I think the criticism is fair. I think the odds of V being a better language than all the other existing ones once it's ready and done are slim. But, I also think that it having had better marketing, bold claims, and clear ambitions, might be the only chance it has at making it. The funding it's getting, the support from other contributors that showed up after all the marketing push, that could pay off. Look at the commit history pre/post all the marketing. I've never seen an open source project that's so early in development having so many contributors beyond the ones that are made by a company hiring a team. Basically, I feel tech people underestimate the value of marketing and a good sales man. These things are needed to build a good product as well. You can't build anything without resources. Steve Jobs couldn't have built the iPhone from a technical angle, but the engineers couldn't have built the iPhone without Steve Jobs enabling its focused development. All the luck to V, and all the other languages to be honest. I don't care how it happens, through overblown marketing, clickbait articles, or through academic rhetoric, or from pure passion, or through someone working in a cave somewhere disconnected and coming out of it all of a sudden, etc. I just would like for it to happen.