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As a notice to others reading this user's comments, they are a recently made account that seems to exist mostly to post about V and post negatively about Zig. E

As a notice to others reading this user's comments, they are a recently made account that seems to exist mostly to post about V and post negatively about Zig. Extremely suspect given the history of poor behavior from the V project.

henry_viii 4y ago
You made this account just to insinuate I'm a shill? Not cool. I work professionally with Go and I follow news about V, yes. Also I'm interested in discussions involving Zig and V because even though there is an overlap of the design goals of the languages (e.g. zero-cost interoperability with C, high performance), there aren't many comparisons between them online. My advice is listen to the criticism of Zig to improve the language instead of making throwaway accounts to accuse people.
- dang 4y ago
  I agree that the criticism is unfair because you've posted about other things as well. However, it's true that you've posted in the programming language flamewar style in the past; we're trying to avoid that here, so please don't do that in the future. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - henry_viii 4y ago
    Thank you, Dan. I meant to ask my question in the spirit of HN (intellectual curiosity). I have found this community insightful when it comes to programming languages. Examples: Vale https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31786487 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31786487 Lobster https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19567160 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19567160 I think this question will also be raised eventually since there have been other examples of Zig ports of Go projects: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31993429#31994394 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31993429#31994394 I'm looking forward to OP's update. I believe it will be objective and insightful (surprisingly Google returns 0 results of "vlang vs. zig").
    - pverghese 4y ago
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        pverghese 4y ago
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        henry_viii 4y ago
        > Autofree does not work and can lead to double free and use after frees currently Unless you can give an example, I'm going to have to say you're still spreading lies. The issues with autofree were fixed in June 2022. From V's homepage (https://vlang.io/ https://vlang.io/): > (June 9, 2022) As of today, programs built with the V compiler no longer leak memory by default. Your previous comment was from July 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31995339 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31995339 I don't think HN is the place for football tribalism. We're discussing tools. Please don't get so emotionally attached to a tool. I mentioned a language with a Go-like syntax in a discussion about a port of a Go project. I haven't been critical of Zig anywhere in the thread.
        dang 4y ago
        You did exactly what I asked you to stop doing, just after I asked you! This is a way to get banned here. Please don't do this in the future. It would be best to just avoid this topic and focus on other things you find interesting. I'm not going to ban you right now, because from your more recent posts it looks like you've started to do that instead, which is good.
        dang 4y ago
        Please do not do programming language flamewar on HN. Even if someone else's comments are provocative, or you feel they are, reacting this way only makes things worse, and is just what we're trying to avoid here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
dang 4y ago
It's true that users here should avoid programming language flamewar drama (or any flamewar drama), but you shouldn't be attacking another user like this. Between that and the name of the account, I think we have to ban this one. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

henry_viii 4y ago

You made this account just to insinuate I'm a shill? Not cool. I work professionally with Go and I follow news about V, yes. Also I'm interested in discussions involving Zig and V because even though there is an overlap of the design goals of the languages (e.g. zero-cost interoperability with C, high performance), there aren't many comparisons between them online. My advice is listen to the criticism of Zig to improve the language instead of making throwaway accounts to accuse people.

dang 4y ago
I agree that the criticism is unfair because you've posted about other things as well. However, it's true that you've posted in the programming language flamewar style in the past; we're trying to avoid that here, so please don't do that in the future. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- henry_viii 4y ago
  Thank you, Dan. I meant to ask my question in the spirit of HN (intellectual curiosity). I have found this community insightful when it comes to programming languages. Examples: Vale https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31786487 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31786487 Lobster https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19567160 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19567160 I think this question will also be raised eventually since there have been other examples of Zig ports of Go projects: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31993429#31994394 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31993429#31994394 I'm looking forward to OP's update. I believe it will be objective and insightful (surprisingly Google returns 0 results of "vlang vs. zig").
  - pverghese 4y ago
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        henry_viii 4y ago
        > Autofree does not work and can lead to double free and use after frees currently Unless you can give an example, I'm going to have to say you're still spreading lies. The issues with autofree were fixed in June 2022. From V's homepage (https://vlang.io/ https://vlang.io/): > (June 9, 2022) As of today, programs built with the V compiler no longer leak memory by default. Your previous comment was from July 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31995339 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31995339 I don't think HN is the place for football tribalism. We're discussing tools. Please don't get so emotionally attached to a tool. I mentioned a language with a Go-like syntax in a discussion about a port of a Go project. I haven't been critical of Zig anywhere in the thread.
        dang 4y ago
        You did exactly what I asked you to stop doing, just after I asked you! This is a way to get banned here. Please don't do this in the future. It would be best to just avoid this topic and focus on other things you find interesting. I'm not going to ban you right now, because from your more recent posts it looks like you've started to do that instead, which is good.
        dang 4y ago
        Please do not do programming language flamewar on HN. Even if someone else's comments are provocative, or you feel they are, reacting this way only makes things worse, and is just what we're trying to avoid here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

dang 4y ago

It's true that users here should avoid programming language flamewar drama (or any flamewar drama), but you shouldn't be attacking another user like this. Between that and the name of the account, I think we have to ban this one. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html