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by amedvednikov 1456 days ago
You have a very strange definition of a lie. There's a working example. Anyone can run it and inspect it, it's all open source.

Autofree hasn't been a priority because of how unexpectedly well the GC is performing with V, but it will be finished.

All this is clearly stated on the website.

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Your claim of "(Work in progress) There's no garbage collection or reference counting. V cleans everything up during compilation. If your V program compiles, it's guaranteed that it's going to be leak free." was absolutely a lie. That's why you had to eventually fall back to reference counting.

The newer reference counting system has an example but it's very easy to conjure a working example of a system that has fundamental holes. When people use it for larger programs it crashes or leaks even today. Is that incorrect?