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Vinix – An effort to write a modern, fast, and interesting operating system in V

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Re: Vinix – An effort to write a modern, fast, and interesting operating system in V

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Post by colesantiago »

xena wrote: post #58
unclad5968 wrote: post #49

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The initial alpha (beta?) release of the project was scheduled for public review, but the developer was accepting payments for early access. I won't comment on the state of the release that some people paid for. The devs seem to have made a few enemies. Devs of other small projects, specifically Nim and Zig aren't fans of V to say the least. Nim devs allege that the V project has made defamatory remarks about their p…

I am the author of articles [2], [3], and [4] if you have any questions.

Is V still vapourware in your opinion since you made your posts? Seems to have improved significantly since then.

Re: Vinix – An effort to write a modern, fast, and interesting operating system in V

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Post by xena »

colesantiago wrote: post #61
xena wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am the author of articles [2], [3], and [4] if you have any questions.

Is V still vapourware in your opinion since you made your posts? Seems to have improved significantly since then.

Personally I think it is something that should be ignored until it dies into obscurity. There are good ideas there, but if you sell someone the moon and give them a block of cheese that's kind of a scam.

Re: Vinix – An effort to write a modern, fast, and interesting operating system in V

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Post by colesantiago »

xena wrote: post #62
colesantiago wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is V still vapourware in your opinion since you made your posts? Seems to have improved significantly since then.

Personally I think it is something that should be ignored until it dies into obscurity. There are good ideas there, but if you sell someone the moon and give them a block of cheese that's kind of a scam.

I get your point, but it doesn't look like this project would be ignored for some time, though it also makes some sense to market some features of the language with some demos, UI, GL and even an OS to show its capabilities.

And if you ask me, it's very impressive that an OS can be written in V as well.

Re: Vinix – An effort to write a modern, fast, and interesting operating system in V

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Post by vlang1dot0 »

super_flanker wrote: post #55
vlang1dot0 wrote: post #18

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The last time I asked about how the memory management would work, the conversation was quickly shut down by a vlang dev (not Alex) who grilled on me on why I wanted to know how the language worked. I've seen this same reaction to other newcomers who dare to ask reasonable questions instead of simply drinking the Kool aide.

Ditto same experience, I asked if somebody could explain me the memory model of V; and all of sudden hell broke loose. I was asked why do I need to know how memory model worked, are you a troll, if you don't contribute to the lang you're not welcome here. Never asked a second question again.

Yep. Very telling when no one on the server can explain it and anyone who asks is silenced.

Re: Vinix – An effort to write a modern, fast, and interesting operating system in V

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Post by vlang1dot0 »

colesantiago wrote: post #63
xena wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally I think it is something that should be ignored until it dies into obscurity. There are good ideas there, but if you sell someone the moon and give them a block of cheese that's kind of a scam.

I get your point, but it doesn't look like this project would be ignored for some time, though it also makes some sense to market some features of the language with some demos, UI, GL and even an OS to show its capabilities. And if you ask me, it's very impressive that an OS can be written in V as well.

It's not terribly impressive when the compiler just outputs C and invokes TCC or your platform's compiler to do the actual work. V is far more like a different syntax for C than it is a real language. Perhaps one day that will change but currently V is to C as CoffeeScript is to JavaScript.

Re: Vinix – An effort to write a modern, fast, and interesting operating system in V

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Post by vlang1dot0 »

colesantiago wrote: post #60
davtur19 wrote: post #20

Have you bought github stars from a click farm again and then show how many stars you have compared to other langs?

Imagine caring about a projects organic growth from GitHub stars from China lol. The simplest explanation is that maybe they 'like' the project?

Imagine thinking that GitHub stars are indicative of anything at all. You might as well measure popularity by how many times your webpage has been bookmarked.

Re: Vinix – An effort to write a modern, fast, and interesting operating system in V

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Post by colesantiago »

vlang1dot0 wrote: post #67
colesantiago wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Imagine caring about a projects organic growth from GitHub stars from China lol. The simplest explanation is that maybe they 'like' the project?

Imagine thinking that GitHub stars are indicative of anything at all. You might as well measure popularity by how many times your webpage has been bookmarked.

my point is, who cares? if they like it so what?

Re: Vinix – An effort to write a modern, fast, and interesting operating system in V

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Post by CyberDildonics »

ylluminate wrote: post #46
adamrezich wrote: post #37

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for anyone who doesn't use Telegram: the image shows that most of the stars came in short bursts of time, from China. kinda weird that one can't click the image in their browser to enlarge it

You may be curious to see how many people in China are actually contributing and doing stuff in V. That's actually surprising and cool.

How many?
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