Actually, V's author was gracious enough to come to HN to address and answer a number of users (including on this thread). This includes that he has previously answered questions by vlang1dot0 (on other threads), despite repeated attempts at spreading misinformation or the obvious and continual trolling (with just the username alone).

If you notice, HN doesn't have zig1dot0, nim1dot0, or odin1dot0 accounts trolling any threads they can find pertaining to the language or alluding to why they aren't at 1.0 yet. Despite the fact that both Zig and Odin started around 2016 (3 or more years before Vlang) and have yet to achieve 1.0. Zig only managed self-hosting this year (2022), after more than 6 years of existence. Nim took 11 years to reach 1.0 (created 2008 to achieved 1.0 in 2019).

Add to this, the incessant and demonstrably false claims that V is vaporware or fake despite it having over 90 releases, applications written in it, and thorough documentation about the language.

https://github.com/vlang/v/releases (releases) https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md (documentation) https://modules.vlang.io/ (modules)

By the way, types in V are zeroed by default. Zeroed means that they are assigned default values. Empty string for string types, 0 for integers, and false for Boolean types. When not sure what to initialize variables with, it is recommended to make them mutable, so to be updated as needed. In V, you don't assign null or nil. There isn't any *ptr = NULL or Var := nil. That is the context in which they are referring to.