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i was annoyed by the hyperbolic ambitious claims but if the guy and his friends pour out solid code then there's nothing else to say :) also they seem to aim at frugal fat free programming, i cannot not like that
> if the guy and his friends pour out solid code then there's nothing else to say :) Unfortunately, they don't.
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Those that lie often either don't respect other people or they don't have the ability to know when they are lying. Which is scarier? Go, Nim, and Zig have similar focuses and their devs have put in years of public, good work. Some of the take downs at the time he was making his initial claims are absolutely brutal and make it clear that he not only couldn't back up his crazy claims, he wasn't getting the small stuff…
Hardly an unbiased article: > V can be bootstrapped in under a second by compiling its code translated to C with a simple cc v.c No libraries or dependencies needed. Git is a dependency, which means perl is a dependency, which means a shell is a dependency, which means glibc is a dependency, which means that a lot of other things (including posix threads) are also dependencies. Pedantically, you could even go as far…
Looks like V author/community is on the track to rewrite the world. Expect operating system stuff next? I'm shocked by how quickly it goes along, though. Gitly is quite usable already, and I appreciate the swiftness. I'd think that Rust community is rewriting the world, but it's happening at much slower pace. Is V's basis strong enough to do this? Seeing the issues like [1] (about the basic memory management stuff) o…
Could someone explain to me why, after seeing how many exaggerated claims the author has made, they have invested their time into building up a community around it? I'd be straight up terrified to trust anything serious with this guy's work. In this instance, the demo won't even load for me and the documentation page can't be bothered to put the most basic of padding in it. Why even release publicly? Promises, promis…
Given the over-prommise-under-deliver launch of V, it boggles my mind that it gained so much traction on GH.
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i was annoyed by the hyperbolic ambitious claims but if the guy and his friends pour out solid code then there's nothing else to say :) also they seem to aim at frugal fat free programming, i cannot not like that
Those that lie often either don't respect other people or they don't have the ability to know when they are lying. Which is scarier? Go, Nim, and Zig have similar focuses and their devs have put in years of public, good work. Some of the take downs at the time he was making his initial claims are absolutely brutal and make it clear that he not only couldn't back up his crazy claims, he wasn't getting the small stuff…
Can what this guy is doing be done without making mistakes? Is this thread not good publicity? Does crazy_horse not sound pathetic and amedvednikov comparatively heroic? Could we not dream a little, please?
To those who've heard of him before, he's just a conman.
Make no mistake, this is just one of his many "ambitious" projects that he creates for publicity and then abandons after a while. Again, this isn't the first time he does this. He promises the world and under-delivers.
V and it's creator get a lot of flack here on HN and the criticisms are probably warranted. However, I personally enjoy seeing them out here hustling and really trying to make their language succeed despite all the shortcomings. As someone who skews more apathetic, I enjoy seeing people driven by so much passion. Now, it's time for me to be one of those critics! It's easy to promote the speed and size of your github…
> V and it's creator get a lot of flack here on HN and the criticisms are probably warranted. Hi fellow Penguin :D! I'm impressed by the creator's dedication here too, but he's clearly biting off more then he can chew - he's been saying that he's making a * Web framework * GUI framework * SQL ORM * A language that has a lot of promises - seriously checkout their list. * Github alternative * VIM alternative This stuff…
V and it's creator get a lot of flack here on HN and the criticisms are probably warranted. However, I personally enjoy seeing them out here hustling and really trying to make their language succeed despite all the shortcomings. As someone who skews more apathetic, I enjoy seeing people driven by so much passion. Now, it's time for me to be one of those critics! It's easy to promote the speed and size of your github…
> V and it's creator get a lot of flack here on HN and the criticisms are probably warranted. Hi fellow Penguin :D! I'm impressed by the creator's dedication here too, but he's clearly biting off more then he can chew - he's been saying that he's making a * Web framework * GUI framework * SQL ORM * A language that has a lot of promises - seriously checkout their list. * Github alternative * VIM alternative This stuff…
https://public-001.gitsense.com/insights/github/repos?p=impa...
When you have a large number of people in Zone 2 and nobody in Zone 1, this is a very good sign that effort is being fairly distributed. And if you look at the activity for the last year:
https://public-001.gitsense.com/insights/github/repos?q=comm...
it is extremely active with 98% days active. And if I had to guess, I would say there are at least 5-7 people working on this full time based on the following:
https://public-001.gitsense.com/insights/github/repos?p=cont...
Full Disclosure: I'm the creator of the tool with the insights above.
Looks like V author/community is on the track to rewrite the world. Expect operating system stuff next? I'm shocked by how quickly it goes along, though. Gitly is quite usable already, and I appreciate the swiftness. I'd think that Rust community is rewriting the world, but it's happening at much slower pace. Is V's basis strong enough to do this? Seeing the issues like [1] (about the basic memory management stuff) o…
Could someone explain to me why, after seeing how many exaggerated claims the author has made, they have invested their time into building up a community around it? I'd be straight up terrified to trust anything serious with this guy's work. In this instance, the demo won't even load for me and the documentation page can't be bothered to put the most basic of padding in it. Why even release publicly? Promises, promis…
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Could someone explain to me why, after seeing how many exaggerated claims the author has made, they have invested their time into building up a community around it? I'd be straight up terrified to trust anything serious with this guy's work. In this instance, the demo won't even load for me and the documentation page can't be bothered to put the most basic of padding in it. Why even release publicly? Promises, promis…
I confess that I've found it both enraging and depressing to see that the "bootstrapped-by-hype" model works even in programming language development , which I had (naively, I guess) assumed would be more immune to that sort of thing. I suppose the field is composed of fallible humans just like any other.
Can what this guy is doing be done without making mistakes? Is this thread not good publicity? Does crazy_horse not sound pathetic and amedvednikov comparatively heroic? Could we not dream a little, please?
amedvednikov only sounds heroic if this is first time you've heard about him or the criticisms towards him over the years. To those who've heard of him before, he's just a conman. Make no mistake, this is just one of his many "ambitious" projects that he creates for publicity and then abandons after a while. Again, this isn't the first time he does this. He promises the world and under-delivers.