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Re:V Playground by ModernMech on Friday March 29, 2019 @11:40PM (#19527572)
Glad to hear you are growing, but just so you know you are getting a reputation for over-promising and under-delivering. In the last thread that was over 2 weeks ago, you promised the online playground in 2 days. It wasn't 2 days [1]. In this reddit thread you promised it in 3 hours [2]. It wasn't 3 hours.

Look, you don't owe anybody anything, and that's fine. Just don't make promises you can't keep. If you're not going to have something done in 2 days, don't say it'll be done in 2 days. Just say "you'll get it when you get it" and that's an absolutely fine response. But promising something in hours or days and missing that deadline will lead reasonable people to take your claims with a huge grain of salt.

All I'm saying is you've made some very big claims, so now you might want to master the fine art of setting expectations or risk making people lose interest in your project when you finally release a compiler.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19403747

[2]https://old.reddit.com/r/vlang/comments/b2k8j7/playground/

Re:V Playground by amedvednikov on Friday March 29, 2019 @11:53PM (#19527621)
The first version of the playground was released 10 days ago.

I no longer name dates.

Re:V Playground by ModernMech on Friday March 29, 2019 @11:58PM (#19527645)
Good to hear it. That's a smart move.
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Re:V Playground by yeukhon on Friday March 29, 2019 @11:57PM (#19527636)
Have a little respect here too. Parent is giving free advice to the author. Up to him to take it or not. And from all these defensive comments, you need to calm down. People are giving geniune criticism. God knows why you are being so defensive.
Re:V Playground by ModernMech on Friday March 29, 2019 @11:58PM (#19527644)
To be clear: 1) I literally said he doesn't owe anyone anything and 2) he hasn't exactly given anything for free to anyone yet as long as his compiler is closed source.