OK. In the interests of fairness, I'll take another look at V. Because I did like the look of it when I dabbled a few years back. I found it a bit like Go but without the annoying boiler-plate `if err != nil...` everywhere, it did seem to compile and run quickly and I did remark at the time that it had some of the most helpful error messages I'd found in any programming language.

I'm not a professional coder though. I only knock together hacky stuff for my own purposes. So I have to bow to the superior collective opinion on HN when it comes to the more esoteric qualities of any language, such as its memory handling, efficiency, etc.

So I am a long way from being the 'Hater' half the comments seem to suggest. Although the younger generation are hypersensitive these days that just disagreeing with someone else's opinion is enough to have you accused of 'hate crime'.

PS: I've also been dabbling with Crystal, which has for me the nicest syntax out of the Go / V / Crystal triumvirate that I keep drifting between, in my quest for the "One True Language to Rule Them All" that I can learn relatively easily and use for my personal hacking needs. Unfortunately Crystal suffers from a lack of tooling and some of the most unhelpful error messaging I've come across.

So there you go. That was some love for V.... or was it a 'hate crime' against Crystal? It's so hard to not cause offence, these days.