<story><title>V Language Review (2023)</title><url>https://n-skvortsov-1997.github.io/reviews/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ianthehenry</author><text>Can someone explain the backstory of what V is and why someone took the time to write this? To the uninitiated this sounds like someone criticizing some kid’s side project.&lt;p&gt;I’m picking up some context clues that V is widely used &amp;#x2F; famous &amp;#x2F; notable &amp;#x2F; significant somehow, but the only time I have ever heard of it before this is Xe Iaso’s similarly negative posts. Did V receive some huge funding grant that made it the target of ire? Is the author otherwise well-known? What am I missing?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smcl</author><text>When the V project started out the creator of V made some big claims that raised a few eyeballs, they&amp;#x27;ve gained a reasonable following over the years, have a pretty serious looking website (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;vlang.io&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;vlang.io&lt;/a&gt;), a beer-money level Patreon following and some corporate partnerships&amp;#x2F;sponsors. However they have experienced some pretty brutal takedowns over the years, with some of the bolder claims about the language&amp;#x2F;compiler often being exposed as untrue and some functionality being broken.&lt;p&gt;A word I keep seeing in relation to V is &amp;quot;aspirational&amp;quot; - the project aspires to be a serious language and it aspires to have some serious features, so I think it&amp;#x27;s fair to approach it with a more critical eye than one would a kid&amp;#x27;s side-project. I think HN would have been pretty understanding if they were open about the state of the various features and were a little less defensive when they encounter articles that review it like a Real Language.&lt;p&gt;If the authors don&amp;#x27;t want this kind of feedback they can just say front-and-centre (or on their FAQ @ &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;vlang&amp;#x2F;v&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;FAQ&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;vlang&amp;#x2F;v&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;) &amp;quot;this is a toy&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;this is pre-alpha&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;this is for research purposes&amp;quot;. There are plenty of projects like this which are open about their intent and which don&amp;#x27;t have posts like this written about them. But I don&amp;#x27;t think that&amp;#x27;ll happen, so as it stands the pattern will continue - someone revisits the language every year or so, finds some things that doesn&amp;#x27;t meet expectations, writes about it and we discuss it on HN again.</text></comment>
<story><title>V Language Review (2023)</title><url>https://n-skvortsov-1997.github.io/reviews/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ianthehenry</author><text>Can someone explain the backstory of what V is and why someone took the time to write this? To the uninitiated this sounds like someone criticizing some kid’s side project.&lt;p&gt;I’m picking up some context clues that V is widely used &amp;#x2F; famous &amp;#x2F; notable &amp;#x2F; significant somehow, but the only time I have ever heard of it before this is Xe Iaso’s similarly negative posts. Did V receive some huge funding grant that made it the target of ire? Is the author otherwise well-known? What am I missing?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AndyKelley</author><text>There is a summary at the top of this post from 2019:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;andrewkelley.me&amp;#x2F;post&amp;#x2F;why-donating-to-musl-libc-project.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;andrewkelley.me&amp;#x2F;post&amp;#x2F;why-donating-to-musl-libc-proje...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>