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V has the right to exist, have its supporters, and do things its own way. The creator and developers of V, from what I have seen, has always responded well to constructive criticism. Their language has discussions opened at their GitHub, unlike those for various other languages. They even have a thread for what people don't like and want improved about the language[1], again, something many other languages don't have.
A lot of what was going on initially, was coming from obvious competitors, to include being uncivil, inflammatory, and insulting. The initial "criticism" was not so much that, but false accusations of the language being a scam, vaporware, fraud, or didn't really exist. To include attacks and jealousy about its funding and having supporters. This was not any kind of "valid" criticism, that the creator or contributors of the language could reason about.
The "criticism" never died down, but rather after V was open-sourced and established itself on GitHub. The initial series of false accusations could not stand nor could the support it was getting be stopped. So, the rhetoric and targets shifted to whatever could be found to go after on the newly released alpha version of the language and its new website. In that new mix of what was being thrown at it, there were indeed some very valid criticisms, as can be found with any new language.
Constructive and valid criticism, is not the same as insults, trolling, misinformation, rivalry, or false accusations. There is clearly a difference. It's disingenuous to pretend something from one group is the same as the other, or that the intent behind what is being done is not different.
[1] https://github.com/vlang/v/discussions/7610
- Philosophical approaches behind project or lack thereof.
Now on the personal, subjective note, the more I look, the more I want to avoid V and get my hands on Jai [1][2]
[1] https://github.com/Jai-Community/Jai-Community-Library/wiki/...
https://github.com/vlang/ui
It does seem to be still in its very early stages but if they are able to make this a more mature library, it may actually be quite useful for tiny, fast apps.
It can be done. There is also a specific module/project for the purpose, called VAB[1].
[1]https://github.com/vlang/vab#readme