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Re: V Playground

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The last 10% is usually the actual 90%. Claims like C++ translation is definitely one of those 90% things that may look easy to some people until you actually try to do it.

I don't think there's a single person on this planet for whom translating C++ would seem easy.

You claim your language will support it before having it ready. So C++ appears to be easy enough for you, in order to be able to predict such a feature.

Re: V Playground

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It will be back, open source, re-written in V: http://gitly.org I started developing Volt/V in the middle of developing gitly. That's my biggest drawback. I finish 90% of the project, and jump to a different thing. I've grown a lot since then, and I'm slowly wrapping up everything.

The last 10% is usually the actual 90%. Claims like C++ translation is definitely one of those 90% things that may look easy to some people until you actually try to do it.

Please don't lecture people unless you have something to show for it yourself, specially if it is unsolicited. The author is giving away his work for free, he owes nobody anything. He is amazingly humble too. You don't like his claims you are free to not use his product (for free!)

Re: V Playground

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The GitHub issue about the playground says C++ translation is "not coming soon". So the claimed C/C++ translation looks misleading.

C++ translation will be done by the time the language is open sourced. I can already compile simpler projects.

Any non-trivial C++ program typically uses the STL or a similar library, which requires the full expressiveness of C++ to be implemented.

So, no, I don't think you have done even a tiny fraction of what C++ entails.

Re: V Playground

#54

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It will be back, open source, re-written in V: http://gitly.org I started developing Volt/V in the middle of developing gitly. That's my biggest drawback. I finish 90% of the project, and jump to a different thing. I've grown a lot since then, and I'm slowly wrapping up everything.

Glad to hear you are growing, but just so you know you are getting a reputation for over-promising and under-delivering. In the last thread that was over 2 weeks ago, you promised the online playground in 2 days. It wasn't 2 days [1]. In this reddit thread you promised it in 3 hours [2]. It wasn't 3 hours. Look, you don't owe anybody anything, and that's fine. Just don't make promises you can't keep. If you're not go…

YOu know that website /r/choosingbeggars? That's where you belong. Author is giving stuff for free and humbly accepts that he has scheduling issues. You choose to lecture him like he owes you.

How much money have you donated to him yet?

Re: V Playground

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It will be back, open source, re-written in V: http://gitly.org I started developing Volt/V in the middle of developing gitly. That's my biggest drawback. I finish 90% of the project, and jump to a different thing. I've grown a lot since then, and I'm slowly wrapping up everything.

Glad to hear you are growing, but just so you know you are getting a reputation for over-promising and under-delivering. In the last thread that was over 2 weeks ago, you promised the online playground in 2 days. It wasn't 2 days [1]. In this reddit thread you promised it in 3 hours [2]. It wasn't 3 hours. Look, you don't owe anybody anything, and that's fine. Just don't make promises you can't keep. If you're not go…

The first version of the playground was released 10 days ago.

I no longer name dates.

Re: V Playground

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Hi, This is definitely not a toy language. Right now it can emit x64 machine code, more platforms will be available after the open-source release in early June.

We will see once you release the source code, but for now maybe tone down the language on your site and in your comments. Of course your code is going to compile faster if you don’t support any platforms or optimizations. If you’re really serious about building a programming language I suggest porting V to llvm IR so you can focus on the parts you’re obviously more interested in.

It's his website, he can do whatever he wants. You are not a paying customer. Stop being a choosing beggar.

Re: V Playground

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If this is thr case, this post should be flagged for misinformation.

It’s intentionally misleading. He might not be outright lying, but he is either too ignorant or intentionally leaving out that his compiler is essentially just a front end with no back end.

The only one misleading here is you.

Re: V Playground

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post #54

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Glad to hear you are growing, but just so you know you are getting a reputation for over-promising and under-delivering. In the last thread that was over 2 weeks ago, you promised the online playground in 2 days. It wasn't 2 days [1]. In this reddit thread you promised it in 3 hours [2]. It wasn't 3 hours. Look, you don't owe anybody anything, and that's fine. Just don't make promises you can't keep. If you're not go…

YOu know that website /r/choosingbeggars? That's where you belong. Author is giving stuff for free and humbly accepts that he has scheduling issues. You choose to lecture him like he owes you. How much money have you donated to him yet?

Have a little respect here too. Parent is giving free advice to the author. Up to him to take it or not. And from all these defensive comments, you need to calm down. People are giving geniune criticism. God knows why you are being so defensive.

Re: V Playground

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C++ translation will be done by the time the language is open sourced. I can already compile simpler projects.

Any non-trivial C++ program typically uses the STL or a similar library, which requires the full expressiveness of C++ to be implemented. So, no, I don't think you have done even a tiny fraction of what C++ entails.

I support STL and even plan to support Boost.
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