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My honest opinion (as someone with no dog in this fight) is that the author was naive and really bad at PR, but is improving overtime. I generally encourage ne

• jstimpfle 5y ago
  It's not even a question of "how bad". There was way too much PR given how immature the project was, at least at the time. I don't think the author had had a lot of experience as a language designer / compiler implementer when the project was started. One advertised feature of the compiler was its supposed simplicity, such as getting along without an AST. I doubt this was a good choice and I think they ended up adding one in. In my perception it was mostly sold as a piece of engineering by PR like this (quote from OP): Cheapest server $160 $20 $3.50 [2]
• osmarks 5y ago
  They made hugely exaggerated/false claims while raking in lots of Patreon money.
  • ylluminate 5y ago
    "Lots" is very, very subjective. What country do you live in? I would say (as an appreciative donor/patron myself) there has been very, very little in the way of direct donations to the founder himself. This is no "get rich quick" scheme. Frankly I don't know of any programming language that's ever been such a quickie in this regard.
    • osmarks 5y ago
      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20230351 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20230351 says they got $927/month some time ago, which is a decent amount of income I think. It seems to be less now.