first time I saw it was today and I thought it looked cool.

I think name and shame, street parade the criminal would be a good moderation idea. don't just highlight the best, highlight the worst. it helps reinforce standards

never seen a forum do that tho. it's always about the most liked

but in society we also know the most hated

Lies.

On a more serious note, compilers and programming languages take years to get into a usable state, and V very much in early stages of development, pre-pre-pre-alpha or similar quality. It is far from usable for any serious work at all. All the listed features are "planned features", many of which are not yet implementd or buggy. In other words, as development progresses, the author of V will realize that it is not easy to design/implement those features properly, otherwise every language would have that.

It's easy to make a language that compiles faster than C. First get rid of the C preprocessor, and fix the syntax so it is easier to parse (e.g. `name: Type` rather than `Type name`). You can go even further and make it possible to parse each line independently (I think Zig does this?).

Second use a simple modern code generator that doesn't do much optimisation.

But you could say that it overpromises and underdelivers...

The project clearly states that some features are a work in progress (wip)[0]. What happens when this project achieves all those goals? That blog post will become irrelevant.

If this is 'vaporware' why is it open source? We should be happy that this project is now developed in the open and not closed up.

[0] https://vlang.io/

Not honoring monotonic let alone semantic versioning is a bit annoying but oh well.

Seems that it can _sometimes_ do Doom.

[0] https://christine.website/blog/v-vvork-in-progress-2020-01-0...