Look, I'm not hostile towards the initiator or the language. I'm happy to give V a chance in the future. But it started out with huge promises that could never

Look, I'm not hostile towards the initiator or the language. I'm happy to give V a chance in the future. But it started out with huge promises that could never be kept, and were tied to fund raising. This is why there was so much skepticism in the beginning, and why you are facing so much hostility now. The way to change that is by professionalism and convincing arguments, benchmarks, showing how the promises are kept and responding to criticism in a good faith manner by providing technical explanations. Not by responding with more hostility. It's also perfectly fine for fans of the language to support it here, but there are many "content-free" posts in this submission that just hype up V with minimal value-add... I personally don't see an ad-hominem in my post.