[richbell]

These aren't mutually exclusive. What isn't captured in individual posts about V is the historical context of previous discussions.

I think many people feel scorned or resentful towards the attitudes, which means they're more likely to speak negatively of it in the future.

When V was first announced, there was a lot of hype about "Volt": a cross-platform Slack app written in V (https://web.archive.org/web/20190315173156/https://volt-app....). It was slated to be released 'soon', but months went by and there was nothing. When it eventually did release, it was nowhere near as complete or polished as people were being lead on to believe. Same thing with V itself, and people were attacked for pointing this out.

There's a long history of over-promising or hyping things that don't exist, and not handling constructive criticism well. So there's a number of people who actively dislike V.

[mst]

Right, people who dislike me will call me a massive arsehole (and not necessarily be wrong) but V-lang stans leave -me- cold.