V Programming Language

I love looking at new languages. People invent really creative stuff. However, my exploration usually ends with "this is great, but there are no libraries for it, so I probably won't use it". If you are building a language, starting from scratch is the epitome of Not Invented Here syndrome. Build it on top of an existing ecosystem. Look at Elixir and how it builds on Erlang and interoperates with it just perfectly. Or look Groovy, Scala and Clojure to…

In case the author ever reads this: assuming good faith, the effort and intent is laudable, but you've put the cart in front of the horse by having multiple amazing claims that would take many, many man/years to accomplish by experienced developers, which is why they've been received with a lot of skepticism. Even assuming a great level of skill, the claims a priori are hard to take serious, even before taking into consideration the timeline. Now that (part of?)…

I know the launch was mired in controversy, but work has gone on since them. Christine Dodrill occassionally takes a look at it after writing about it at launch and I like her updates. Here's[0] her most recent look at the project, from June [0]: https://christine.website/blog/vlang-update-2020-06-17

I'm a tiny bit worried by the way they are pushing development of so many products not directly related to core language development (a GitHub clone! A kernel!) and not focusing on creating a proper compiler. Maybe they are fine with leaving V as a transpired language indefinitely, but I think that developing this extra stuff is not going to persuade users to switch to V. With that being said, it's quite possible that the core maintainers aren't touching the…