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Re: V Playground

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Post by tptacek »

ilovecaching wrote: post #64
fxfan wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Reading through your comments, I assume you are either a second account or an accomplice in the author's trolling. I don't care about his language. I care about spreading misinformation to people who don't know any better.

If you think the accounts are related, mail hn@yc and tell them so. The guidelines explicitly ask you not to write comments like these in public. Please stop.

Re: V Playground

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Post by fxfan »

rujuladanh wrote: post #68
fxfan wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!)

Excuse me? Who are you to tell others what to comment on? HN is a place to discuss projects and articles on good faith with comments as knowledgeable as possible. If you don't like constructive criticism, please leave and take your censoring somewhere else. By the way, it is specially humorous that you ask me to "show something", when we are discussing a project that makes extraordinary claims without backing them at…

You talk too much with a lot of confidence without knowing quite enough. You also claim Rust isn't free of race conditions when the Rust type system (claims) that it is. (using Sync types).

Please stop commenting in negative way specially since you're not very knowledgeable.

Re: V Playground

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Post by ilovecaching »

wokwokwok wrote: post #4

How do I get the compiler? ...or is this supposed to be the future of programming languages, compiler-as-a-service where you get a playground but not an actual compiler?

Just an FYI, the author is more than likely scamming for donations, or at the very least drumming up donations for vaporware/misleading software. He has as of yet refused to publish any source code for his language, despite having close to 2k stars. If you read my comments, you'll see that he claims to have detailed information on his website, but all he has listed is compilation targets, claimed benchmarks (or just benchmarks taken out of context), and unimplemented features.

Based on what he's saying, he has essentially sold snake oil based on PL buzzwords via blog posts and HN, and has little more than the type of front end you can build going through an LLVM IR guide.

This man might be telling the truth, but based on his behavior so far I would be exceedingly suspicious of anything he says until he has actually released source code or a full compiler.

Re: V Playground

#84

Post by mastrsushi »

amedvednikov wrote: post #41
mastrsushi wrote: post #22

Does V compile directly to native machine code? Or is this just some scripting language that trans-compiles to C.

I've added a link to the home page, it explains everything with lots of details: https://vlang.io

Which I read, one part says it compiles to native machine code, another says it emits C for optimization, so which is it?

And if it does compile to machine code, is it really running as fast as C as you claim? Or did you just say that because it trans-compiles to C.

Re: V Playground

#85

Post by dang »

ilovecaching wrote: post #83
wokwokwok wrote: post #4

How do I get the compiler? ...or is this supposed to be the future of programming languages, compiler-as-a-service where you get a playground but not an actual compiler?

Just an FYI, the author is more than likely scamming for donations, or at the very least drumming up donations for vaporware/misleading software. He has as of yet refused to publish any source code for his language, despite having close to 2k stars. If you read my comments, you'll see that he claims to have detailed information on his website, but all he has listed is compilation targets, claimed benchmarks (or just…

You've posted over a dozen of these comments to this thread. That's massively over the top, regardless of how right your original point might have been. Please stop now.

Re: V Playground

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Post by wilonth »

mastrsushi wrote: post #84
amedvednikov wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've added a link to the home page, it explains everything with lots of details: https://vlang.io

Which I read, one part says it compiles to native machine code, another says it emits C for optimization, so which is it? And if it does compile to machine code, is it really running as fast as C as you claim? Or did you just say that because it trans-compiles to C.

It has 2 modes, one for debug (compile directly to machine code) and one for release (compile to c)

Re: V Playground

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Post by wokwokwok »

Matheus28 wrote: post #45
wokwokwok wrote: post #4

How do I get the compiler? ...or is this supposed to be the future of programming languages, compiler-as-a-service where you get a playground but not an actual compiler?

Free: Limited to 1k lines of code Hobbyist ($29.99/user): Unlimited lines of code, no warning messages Pro ($99.99/user): Warning messages Enterprise (Contact us): Link to libraries

Huh.

I thought the days when anyone seriously toyed with the idea that you could build a business selling a programming language (or perhaps compiler implementation?) were gone.

Oh well, some interest -> zero interest, but hey, best of luck to them~

Re: V Playground

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Post by rujuladanh »

fxfan wrote: post #82
rujuladanh wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Excuse me? Who are you to tell others what to comment on? HN is a place to discuss projects and articles on good faith with comments as knowledgeable as possible. If you don't like constructive criticism, please leave and take your censoring somewhere else. By the way, it is specially humorous that you ask me to "show something", when we are discussing a project that makes extraordinary claims without backing them at…

You talk too much with a lot of confidence without knowing quite enough. You also claim Rust isn't free of race conditions when the Rust type system (claims) that it is. (using Sync types). Please stop commenting in negative way specially since you're not very knowledgeable.

Stop attacking people with off-topic issues and go away.

PS: of course I claim Rust isn't free of race conditions. Its own designers also claim it:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/races.html

You won't even believe the official docs of Rust? :)

Re: V Playground

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Post by amedvednikov »

wokwokwok wrote: post #87
Matheus28 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Free: Limited to 1k lines of code Hobbyist ($29.99/user): Unlimited lines of code, no warning messages Pro ($99.99/user): Warning messages Enterprise (Contact us): Link to libraries

Huh. I thought the days when anyone seriously toyed with the idea that you could build a business selling a programming language (or perhaps compiler implementation?) were gone. Oh well, some interest -> zero interest, but hey, best of luck to them~

Please tell me you are not serious :)

Re: V Playground

#90

Post by amedvednikov »

rujuladanh wrote: post #75
amedvednikov wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's nothing extraordinary on the website. Everything mentioned there was done before.

Do you know of any single person that has written a C++ transpiler into another language from scratch?

Bjarne Stroustrup? :)

I'm not building it from scratch, I use clang parser.

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