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0 pointsprirun3y ago0 comments

I'm always interested in new languages and loved your write-up & evaluation of V.

I really don't get the purpose of someone exaggerating the capabilities of their language, to the point of outright lies.

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I think people think that's "marketing".

Unfortunately that's needed nowadays to succeed. Java, Rust and many other would not be successful without standing on the shoulders of its big lies

What lies did the Rust developers make?

(Also, "nowadays" must stretch out to many decades if you're including Java!)

The three securities they guarantee and cannot hold.

Fearless concurrency.

Java also promised memory safety. I still get Null pointer segfaults in Java code.

The marketing sentence "A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software." is not true.

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