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My comment was specific, backed up by evidence and statements from Golang developers, not a cookie cutter response. HN is arguably best served by fair and balanced views. Speaking of fairness, Golang and other languages have lots of bugs an
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That is a major showstopper for it getting attention. Don't know how making sure it runs on 64-bit OSes was not/is not a top priority. Appears that people have been complaining about that for years.
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Agree with you on that. People can say that there is a procedure, but verifying that they are following it is another matter. Also curious as to the process for volunteering people for such experiments. Like if there is some paperwork that
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Well clearly not everyone agrees with that position. Everybody has a preference, with various people also saying terrible things about Golang or whatever language. Possibly the better position is that people have options to choose from vers
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A lot of the false accusations and other dirty tactics link back to competitors and bad actors. In many circumstances, people are not getting a balanced view of the situation. Many people use and love V. That's why it has nearly 37,000
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Some relatively recent reviews, in English. Lots of good reviews in other languages (Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, French) as well. Keep in mind that V is still in beta. These are from fair and neutral parties: [1] Between Rust and Go, I Cho
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That isn't a real reviewer, but a person that had a clear grudge and who was engaged in hostilities against the V community. The persons involved in those series of blog attacks don't review other programming languages, usually ha
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A language that can do both Python and C "styles" is Ring. It is possible. But the issue is people have such a strong preference for one or the other, that they force the language and developers to permanently choose. Even Allman
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People were not laughing at Turbo Pascal or Delphi when they came out, and they dominated for many years. Delphi/Object Pascal is still taught in the schools of many countries. There are people who want everyone to forget Delphi/O
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The world is a much bigger place than only the UK. Delphi usage was and is not only about a single location. And, a Delphi/Object Pascal programmer can work remotely, know other languages too, or be a freelancer.
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Delphi/Object Pascal is taught in many places around the world and its usage depends on the country. Because Delphi/Object Pascal is not so popular in your or a specific country, does not mean its not more popular somewhere else.
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Last time checked, Delphi (Object Pascal) is ranked #10 on the TIOBE index (August 2025). People get all hot and bothered by Rust and others, yet they are still way behind on the charts. Yeah, Delphi is not in the top 5, but is clearly very
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The world is a big place. Many people and companies do things differently. And if it was really a problem or not profitable for Delphi, they would stop. That speaks for itself.
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This is a very good point. A greater distinction needs to be made about class-based versus class-free OOP. Many of the problems or constraints around OOP that people don't like, come back to classes. Often class-based programming is co
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This Zig victim complex, smells of clear hypocrisy, as can be easily seen by their swipes and harassment of other programming languages, like V (Vlang). It reflects poorly on any leadership engaging in that kind of bad and unprofessional be
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Other languages are much closer to Go than Zig. A few are Vlang (highest percentage), Odin, and C3 (in terms of how Zig is compared). In terms of C interoperability, C3 (highest percentage) and Vlang make this a strong feature of their lang
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There are other choices of languages, that are close to and influenced by Golang. Languages such as Vlang[1] (which addresses several issues mentioned) and maybe Odin[2]. Even more, they are at the stage where advance programmers can contri
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Many would argue that Zig is not to be considered a young language anymore. It's been out for 9 plus years already. A different answer to that question, could be that its still unstable and making breaking changes (not 1.0), thus a rel
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If you didn't know, Casey has made comments on a YouTube video, that he does not like Zig. His review of Zig, was that it's a language that he rather not use and would not recommend.
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There are a couple things about that take, that many would say deserves push back on: (1) Rust supremacism has been aimed at many other languages, not just Zig in particular. It's been a wide spray. (2) Many would say that Zig's l
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V Language: Simplicity Made Sexy. A Gen-Z Blend of Go and Rust(medium.com)
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"If Go and Rust had a younger, sharper sibling that cared about developer happiness as much as raw performance, it would be V (Vlang)" --Hash Block
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Comes with the territory for any pre 1.0 language. What is amazing is that some people will use or critique a language in alpha or beta, then act shocked that they ran into issues.
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True. Exercism is a great resource to check out solutions for many other languages and compare. There is also Rosetta Code[1]. [1] https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code/Rank_languages_by_...
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Well, what often happens with different languages having the same name, is they battle it out in popularity. The winner is known by that name and the loser is forced to change their name to something else. As it is, people know C3 and prett
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The funny thing about this, is people not realizing or ignoring that what the AI is doing or spewing, is a reflection of those feeding it data and programming it.
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Meanwhile in America, oil and coal is becoming king again. Climate change you say? Oh well, "thoughts and prayers".
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While it's true that obesity has risen, a percentage of the human population has always been overweight. While on the other hand, the increasing amounts of environmental pollution and contamination is newer. It can be argued as being t
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Vlang has a Go to V translation project (Go2V)[1]. Usually vlang compiles to C (possibly aiming for a smaller and safer subset). This was a project focus[2] years before particular competitors, thus another hidden point, from which some of
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I agree that the skepticism is warranted. These pharmaceutical companies are making a lot of money, without giving clear results on survival rates. Where it seems like the human race may turn the corner on beating cancer, are with vaccines

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