[sieste]

HN is usually an incredibly welcoming and encouraging community. Any criticisms are honest, sometimes harsh and maybe on the overly sceptical side, but mostly decent and civilised ... Unless Vlang comes up.

> What a piss-poor excuse for an article!

The article is no different from many new-sexy-js-framework blog posts I see here, but these never get that amount of hate. Why is that?

[Tozen]

Good point. It's odd how certain people get so fired up to bash and troll Vlang, then also state they never use it or refer to some controversy from 3 years ago that has lost its relevancy.

Additionally, somehow other newer languages like Odin, Crystal, and Zig seem to escape their wraith and trolling despite having some similar developmental issues. Very selective "hate".

[ksec]

>Unless Vlang comes up

Yes that is why I am surprised it is still on the front page. Normally anything to do with Vlang get flagged within a few hours on HN.

[Tozen]

Exactly. Yet and for example, Zig and Nim articles are posted at will without issue. Recently, Zig related ones have been very numerous, as if people had invested stock into it. In contrast, Vlang related ones often get flagged for unknown reasons. Quite strange. Where is the fairness?

[ksec]

Well, Zig hasn't been numerous. If you do a search on Rust and Zig you will see Rust submission is something like 10-20:1 ratio with headline going at 3-5:1 within one month period. But yes zig is getting some traction on HN. (I have been tracking it ever since Rust people complain about the number of Zig submissions. )

And HN has a hatred for Vlang because arguably it start off in the wrong foot with too many over promising features. I thought we should give Vlang some benefits of doubt. Instead HN simply shoot down all Vlang submission. And it only takes a few people flagging it for it to disappeared from the front page. Yes I dont think it is fair. I wish we can all submit some obscure, unknown programming language to the front page. Unfortunately I am not sure what the solution to that would be, may be email @dang about it?

[ylluminate]

Yeah some jealous "communities" poisoned the water. It's really sad.

[dmytrish]

Because nobody wants to deal with another PHP in the unlikely case V takes off.

[amedvednikov]

It's hard to find a language farther away from V than PHP.

[pwdisswordfish9]

I dunno, the design philosophy seems ripped out of their (former, to their credit!) playbook.

https://twitter.com/woketopus/status/1447150924846313475

[ylluminate]

Lol. You're not speaking the same English bub.

[amedvednikov]

V's design is completely opposite.

[bvrmn]

Early PHP lack of any design is the same of V.

[amedvednikov]

Can you explain what you mean by "lack of design in V"?