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by Tozen 1466 days ago
Let's not discount the hundreds of contributors, sponsors, and other developers that continually make contributions to and improve V.

The impression should not be given that V is just a one-man show. Many of the offshoot projects are in collaboration with others, not just the author, who have invested heavily in them and also wanted or helped create them.
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super_flanker 1466 days ago
Even when they are known to be scammers and frauds?

V's author is paying others to write things in V (even when basic functionalities don't work as advertised). They don't want to improve the language, they want to create a showcase to attract more funding, that's about it.

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Tozen 1466 days ago
From what I've seen, V's author (along with other contributors and sponsors) have been constantly improving the language. Of which, these efforts are applauded by V's users and supporters.

As far as I'm concerned, V works as described in their documentation. As with any language, there are some specifics that are subject to interpretation or debate, but that is to be expected.

And, V is not doing anything that other languages also try to do in terms of sponsors and investors to sustain progress, increase popularity, or make improvements.

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spacechild1 1466 days ago
> As far as I'm concerned, V works as described in their documentation.

Really? Can you explain to me how memory management works in V?

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Tozen 1466 days ago
V (which is at 0.2.4) is using -gc boehm, which is presently the default. On present versions, you don't have to do anything to enable it. On older versions, you needed to enable -gc boehm. You can choose to use and enable Autofree (-autofree), which works, but you have to know what you are doing. Thus it's best to refer to examples of its usage. Then you can also manage memory manually, where of course you clearly must know what you are doing.

Autofree will not be the default until version 0.3 of the language. Autofree inserts free calls during compilation, and the rest is managed by RC. V will be giving users 3 choices: GC, Autofree, or manual. Those people that actually use the language, would already know this.

This is mentioned on both the website and in the documentation, and any confused users can simply ask on discord (https://discord.com/invite/vlang) or the GitHub discussion (https://github.com/vlang/v/discussions).

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spacechild1 1466 days ago
Can you point me to a source that explains how "autofree" is supposed to work?

EDIT:

> which works, but you have to know what you are doing

This does not feel very convincing...

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ylluminate 1466 days ago
This is a complete lie.
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super_flanker 1466 days ago
Like what is lie? I was offered money to develop something in WASM using V, so that they could add it to their "awesome-v" list.

Aren't you the part of the core team who bans anyone on discord who asks questions about V's memory management?

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