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Unfortunately it’s very hard to convince self-proclaimed victims that they are not in fact victims, because then you become one of the “detractors” or “competitors” looking to “gaslight” and “slander”.
I’ve never seen a language with so much self-inflicted drama around it.
And there is more:
1) The OP does not mention he is evaluating an alpha version of the language.
2) OP starts the "evaluation" with a link to a very contentious and controversial post from 2019, which smears the author and describes the language as vaporware (despite it being 2022 now and over 100 releases later).
3) At no time during the creation of his supposedly month long "evaluation" did the OP reach out to the V developers or community to verify anything in his report.
4) At no time did the OP demonstrate any good will by filing any bug reports or creating a discussion at V's GitHub. He had a unknown throwaway GitHub account, to easily do such.
5) The OP's "evaluation" summary (that can not be responded to) is full of opinions that are subject to interpretation.
6) Exactly how qualified is this mystery evaluator doing this negative review? Unknown.
7) Multiple times in the review, the OP mentions "we", as if he is part of a team. Who is "we"? Unknown.
8) The OP avoids attempts to be engaged in debate with V developers on various points about his review or make it known that he will modify it for correctness, fairness, or language version.
The irony of you picking apart the OP's wording as not being exactly correct is just too much. There's the projection I was talking about. :-)
> Multiple times in the review, the OP mentions "we", as if he is part of a team. Who is "we"? Unknown.
On the off chance that you just aren't aware of the idiom, it's common to say "we" as in "me and you, the reader."
Search for "we" in one of my pieces of writing, for example: https://blog.burntsushi.net/csv/
There's nothing nefarious about it. See also: https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/5500/use-of-fir...