[pxeger1]

Here's an article from around the time, "V is for Vaporware": https://christine.website/blog/v-vaporware-2019-06-23 (and discussion of that on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20258485)

I imagine things have improved since 2019, though.

[amedvednikov]

It's a very biased and old list of articles from an author who openly claimed that "V should die".

For example, the performance of V is measured on a debug build, without vlib cached, without vfmt disabled, with a 10x slower backend.

Here's V compiling itself in 0.3 seconds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvP6wmcl_Sc

Also complaining about not running on all Linux flavors on day 1. Right now V runs on literally everything.

And so on.

That's why I asked to list the specific claims the poster had in mind here in the comments.

[pwdisswordfish9]

> an author who openly claimed that "V should die".

Citation needed. Or is the source for that claim the same as that for V benchmarks?

[amedvednikov]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27442724

> I think it is something that should be ignored until it dies into obscurity